Where does “schaplūn” come from?
schaplūn (Middle Low German) comes from Middle Low German schampeliōn, from Middle Dutch schampelioen, from French échantillon, from Old French eschandillon, from Old French eschandiller, from Latin scandaculum, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō — to jump up, ascend.
Ancestry of “schaplūn”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | schampeliōn | — |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | schampelioen | — |
| 3 | French | échantillon | sample, extract |
| 4 | Old French | eschandillon | standard |
| 5 | Old French | eschandiller | to verify the measures of merchants |
| 6 | Latin | scandaculum | ladder |
| 7 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 8 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |