Where does “Laitue” come from?

Laitue (Luxembourgish) comes from French laitue, from Old French laitue, from Latin lactūca, from Latin lác, from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts — milk.

Laitue (Luxembourgish): lettuce

Definitions

  1. lettuce

Ancestry of “Laitue”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlaituelettuce
2Old Frenchlaituelettuce
3Latinlactūcalettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species
4Latinlácmilk
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵláktsmilk
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts →Every word from Latin lác →Every word from Latin lactūca →