Etymology

godet

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Today it means: A drinking cup. Full definition →

Middle French godet ← Dutch kodde
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromkodde“piece of cylindrical wood”
  2. Middle French · derived fromgodet
  3. English todaygodet

From Middle French godet, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”).

Words from the same roots

Dutchkodde all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.