Where does “echelon” come from?
echelon (English) comes from French échelon, from French échelle, from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
echelon (English): Alternative form of echelon
Definitions
- Alternative form of echelon
Ancestry of “echelon”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | échelon | rung; echelon; soup bone |
| 2 | French | échelle | ladder; scale, proportion, size |
| 3 | Old French | eschale | shell |
| 4 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 5 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |