Sabot
/ˈsæb.oʊ/noun
A wooden shoe traditionally worn by peasants in parts of Europe.
Did you know?The word is famously linked to sabotage, but that connection is likely a later folk story; the shoe itself is real, and its name comes from French.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*skabh-
“to dig, scrape, cut”
Late Latin
Latin
*sappus / *sappatum
“a wooden shoe or rough shoe (reconstructed/uncertain intermediary)”
Old French
Old French
sabot
“a wooden shoe”
16th Century
French
sabot
“a peasant's wooden shoe”
Modern English
English
sabot
“a wooden shoe, especially one worn in rural Europe”