Where does “canslaw” come from?
canslaw (English) comes from English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla, from Dutch sla, from Dutch salade, from Middle Dutch salade, from Middle French salade, from Old French salade, from Italian salada — salt.
canslaw (English): Pieces of shredded aluminium cans that may trigger a metal detector
Definitions
- Pieces of shredded aluminium cans that may trigger a metal detector
Ancestry of “canslaw”, step by step
canslaw traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English coleslaw
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | coleslaw | A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and... |
| 2 | Dutch | koolsla | cabbage salad, coleslaw |
| 3 | Dutch | sla | lettuce; salad |
| 4 | Dutch | salade | salad; lettuce; A sallet, a salade |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | salade | — |
| 6 | Middle French | salade | — |
| 7 | Old French | salade | — |
| 8 | Italian | salada | — |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | salata | salted |
| 10 | Latin | Salo | that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón |
| 11 | Latin | saliō | to leap, jump, bound |
| 12 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |
via English can
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | can | To know how to; to be able to; May; to be... |
| 2 | Spanish | can | dog, hound |
| 3 | Latin | Canis | a dog, a hound animal |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | δρόμος | race, running; racetrack; course, path |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |