Where does “chaloppe” come from?
chaloppe (Middle French) comes from Old French eschalope, from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
chaloppe (Middle French): nutshell, seed husk; a sort of flat-bottomed boat
Definitions
- nutshell, seed husk; a sort of flat-bottomed boat
Ancestry of “chaloppe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | eschalope | shell; pod, shell, nutshell |
| 2 | Old French | eschale | shell |
| 3 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 4 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |
Words derived from “chaloppe”