Where does “spaddle” come from?

spaddle (Middle English) comes from English spade, from Italian spade, from Italian spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη, from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ-.

Ancestry of “spaddle”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishspadeA garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for...
2Italianspadeplural of spada
3Italianspataspathe
4Latinspathaspatula, spattle; spatha; a long, two-edged,...
5Ancient Greekσπάθηany broad blade, of wood or metal
6Proto-Indo-Europeansph₂-dʰ-

Words derived from “spaddle

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ-Every word from Ancient Greek σπάθηEvery word from Latin spatha