Where does “echelle” come from?
echelle (English) comes from French échelle, from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
echelle (English): An echelle grating
Ancestry of “echelle”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | échelle | ladder; scale, proportion, size |
| 2 | Old French | eschale | shell |
| 3 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 4 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |
Words derived from “echelle”