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shallot

Meaningonion associated with Ascalon

Common meaning: small onion-like bulb used in cooking

Journey through time

  1. Latinascalonia‘onion associated with Ascalon’source
  2. Old Frenchescalogne‘a shallot’source
  3. Frenchéchalote‘shallot’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsonion associated with Ascalon → small onion-like bulb used in cookingshallot‘small onion-like bulb used in cooking’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin ascalonia ‘onion associated with Ascalon’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry SHALLOT, p. 544 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • ascalonia Latin “onion associated with Ascalon”

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