Etymology Explorer › English

Where does “pickles” come from?

pickles (English) comes from Middle Dutch pekel, from Middle Low German pekel, from Old Saxon *pikkōn.

pickles (English): plural of pickle; Third-person singular simple...

Definitions

  1. plural of pickle; Third-person singular simple...

Ancestry of “pickles”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Dutchpekelbrine
2Middle Low Germanpekelbrine
3Old Saxon*pikkōn—
Every word from Old Saxon *pikkōn →