Where does “scalloped” come from?
Scalloped comes from English scallop, from French escalope, tracing back through Old English -od and Proto-Germanic -ōdaz to Proto-Indo-European roots denoting a past participle formation.
scalloped (English): simple past tense and past participle of scallop;...
Definitions
- simple past tense and past participle of scallop;...
Ancestry of “scalloped”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | scallop | Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the... |
| 2 | Old French | escalope | shell |
| 3 | Old French | escale | shell |
| 4 | Old High German | skala | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | skalō | shell; lump, ball |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kelH- | to cut; to split, to separate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kel- | to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,... |