The story
- Latin · derived fromculcita
- Old French · derived fromcoilte
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromquilte
- Middle English · inherited fromquilte
- English todayquilt
Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Words from the same roots
Latinculcita all →
counterpointquoit
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.