tewel

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*tu-, *tutu-“bird-cry, shriek”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*þeutǭ“pipe, channel, flow”
3. Frankish · derived from*thūta“pipe”
4. Vulgar Latin · derived from*tūta
5. Old French · derived fromtueil, tuel, tudel“tube, pipe”
6. Middle English · inherited fromtuwel
7. English todaytewel

From Middle English tuwel, from Old French tueil, tuel, tudel (“tube, pipe”) (whence modern French tuyau), from Vulgar Latin *tūta, from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese tudel, from the same Germanic source.

Words from the same roots