Where does “laitue” come from?

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

laitue (Norman): lettuce

Definitions

  1. lettuce

Ancestry of “laitue”, step by step

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