Where does “shallot” come from?

Shallot comes from Old French eschaloigne, from Latin ascalonia, ultimately denoting an onion from Ascalon.

shallot (English): A vegetable in the onion family

Definitions

  1. A vegetable in the onion family

Ancestry of “shallot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchéchaloteshallot
2Middle Frencheschalote—
3Old Frencheschaloigneshallot
4Medieval Latinescalonia—
5LatinAscalōnia—

Words derived from “shallot”

Every word from Latin Ascalōnia →Every word from Medieval Latin escalonia →Every word from Old French eschaloigne →