Where does “échelle” come from?
échelle (French) comes from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
échelle (French): ladder; scale, proportion, size
Definitions
- ladder; scale, proportion, size
Ancestry of “échelle”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | eschale | shell |
| 2 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 3 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |
Words derived from “échelle”