Where does “toffee” come from?

Toffee comes from English taffy, whose origin is unknown.

toffee (English): A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard

Definitions

  1. A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard

Ancestry of “toffee”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishTaffyA Welshman
2WelshDafyddDavid
3Middle WelshDauyð—
4LatinDavidDavid
5Ancient GreekΔαυίδDavid
6Hebrewדָּוִד—

Words derived from “toffee”

Every word from Hebrew דָּוִד →Every word from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ →Every word from Latin David →