Where does “ピクルス” come from?

ピクルス (Japanese) comes from English pickles, from Middle Dutch pekel, from Middle Low German pekel, from Old Saxon *pikkōn.

ピクルス (Japanese): pickles

Definitions

  1. pickles

Ancestry of “ピクルス”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpicklesplural of pickle; Third-person singular simple...
2Middle Dutchpekelbrine
3Middle Low Germanpekelbrine
4Old Saxon*pikkōn—
Every word from Old Saxon *pikkōn →Every word from Middle Low German pekel →Every word from Middle Dutch pekel →