Where does “càl amh” come from?

càl amh (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Irish amh, from English Amharic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

càl amh (Scottish Gaelic): lettuce

Definitions

  1. lettuce

Ancestry of “càl amh”, step by step

càl amh traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Irish amh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Irishamhraw, uncooked
2EnglishAmharicA Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Scottish Gaelic càl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Scottish Gaeliccàlcolewort, greens, cabbage, kale
2Old Englishcālcabbage, kale, colewort
3Latincaulisdative plural of caulae; ablative plural of...
4Ancient Greekκαυλόςstem, stalk; shaft
5Proto-Indo-Europeankeh₂ulós
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en