Where does “wintersufel” come from?
wintersufel (Old English) comes from Old English sufel, from English soufflé, from French soufflé, from French souffler, from Old French sofler, from Latin sufflō, from Latin flō, from Proto-Italic flāō.
wintersufel (Old English): food (aside from bread) for winter
Definitions
- food (aside from bread) for winter
Ancestry of “wintersufel”, step by step
wintersufel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old English sufel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old English | sufel | anything eaten with bread, e.g. meat, vegetables,... |
| 2 | English | soufflé | A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and... |
| 3 | French | soufflé | soufflé; past participle of souffler |
| 4 | French | souffler | to blow; to blow out; to whisper |
| 5 | Old French | sofler | — |
| 6 | Latin | sufflō | to blow, puff up, inflate |
| 7 | Latin | flō | to breathe, blow |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | flāō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₁- | to bleat; to cry; to blow |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |