The story
- Proto-West Germanic · derived from*faldistōl
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromfaldistōlium
- English todayfoldstool
Borrowed from Medieval Latin faldistōlium, from Proto-West Germanic *faldistōl. By surface analysis, fold + stool. Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and fauteuil.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.