quilt
KWILT · noun
Origin
Quilt comes from Middle English quilte, quylte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), which trace back to Latin culcita.
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Journey
The word passed from Latin through Old French and Anglo-Norman into Middle English with spellings like quilte and quylte before settling into its modern form.
Related words
Quilt is a doublet of quoit — the two words both descend from the same Latin source, culcita, having traveled into English by different routes.