Where does “kettle” come from?
Kettle comes from Middle English ketel, from Old English cetel, from Latin catillus, from Latin catinus, from Proto-Italic katinos.
kettle (English): A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food,...
Definitions
- A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food,...
Ancestry of “kettle”, step by step
kettle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English ketel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | ketel | A pot used to boil food in; a kettle |
| 2 | Old English | ċietel | kettle, cauldron |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *katil | kettle |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | katilaz | kettle, bucket, vessel |
| 5 | Latin | catīllus | small bowl, dish, or plate |
| 6 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |