Where does “spade” come from?

spade (Middle English) comes from Old English spadu, from Proto-Germanic spadō, from Proto-Germanic spadô, from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ-.

spade (Middle English): tool for digging, shovel

Definitions

  1. tool for digging, shovel

Ancestry of “spade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishspaduspade
2Proto-Germanicspadōspade
3Proto-Germanicspadôspade
4Proto-Indo-Europeansph₂-dʰ-—

Words derived from “spade”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic spadô →Every word from Proto-Germanic spadō →
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