scallion

scallion · noun¹

1. Biblical Hebrew · derived fromאַשְׁקְלוֹן
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromἈσκάλων“Ascalon, an ancient port city in the Levant”
3. Latin · derived fromAscalonius
4. Vulgar Latin · derived from*escalonia
5. Anglo-Norman · derived fromscalun
6. Middle English · inherited fromscaloun“shallot”
7. English todayscallion

From Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλων (Askálōn, “Ascalon, an ancient port city in the Levant”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ʾašqəlôn).

Scallion · proper noun²

Variant of Scullion.