Where does “spot” come from?

Spot comes from Middle Dutch spotte, of unknown ultimate origin.

spot (English): A round or irregular patch on the surface of a...

Definitions

  1. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a...

Ancestry of “spot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives...
2Middle English-yDesignates an adjective, in many cases formed by...
3Old English-iġ-y, -ic
4Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
5Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
6Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “spot

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos