Where does “pickles” come from?

pickles (Dutch) comes from English pickles, from Middle Dutch pekel, from Middle Low German pekel, from Old Saxon *pikkōn.

pickles (Dutch): piccalilli

Definitions

  1. piccalilli

Ancestry of “pickles”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpicklesplural of pickle; Third-person singular simple...
2Middle Dutchpekelbrine
3Middle Low Germanpekelbrine
4Old Saxon*pikkōn—
Every word from Old Saxon *pikkōn →Every word from Middle Low German pekel →Every word from Middle Dutch pekel →