splot

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*(s)pel-“to split”
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*splt-no-“an off-split, segment”
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*spluttaz“segment”
4. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*splott
5. Old English · inherited fromsplott“spot, blot, patch or plot of land”
6. Middle English · inherited from*splot
7. English todaysplot

From Middle English *splot (suggested by Middle English splotty (“spotted, speckled”)), from Old English splott (“spot, blot, patch or plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Related to split.

Words from the same roots