The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*smeltaną“to melt, smelt”
- Frankish · derived from*smalt
- Medieval Latin · derived fromsmaltum
- Italian · borrowed fromsmalto
- English todaysmalt
A borrowing from Italian smalto, from Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”). A doublet of smalto.
Words from the same roots
Italiansmalto all →
smalto
Medieval Latinsmaltum all →
email
Frankish*smalt all →
enamel
Proto-Germanic*smeltaną all →
enamelsmelt
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.