| 1 | English | Cinderella | A mistreated and impoverished girl; Something... |
| 2 | English | cinder | Partially or mostly burnt material that results... |
| 3 | Middle English | cinder | — |
| 4 | Old English | sinder | cinder, ashes; dross, scoria, slag |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *sindr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sindrą | dross, cinder, slag |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sendʰro- | coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder;... |