The story
- Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*kleh₂-“to put, lay out”
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hlaþaną“to load”
- Old English · inherited fromhlædel
- Middle English · inherited fromladel
- English todayladle
From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishladel all →
Laidler
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.