The story
- Latin · derived frombellus“pretty”
- Old French · derived frombabel
- Middle English · inherited frombable
- English todaybauble
From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).
Words from the same roots
Latinbellus all →
beautybeaubeautifybeldame
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.