scallion

Etymology

Comes from Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (a variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (as in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλων (Askálōn, “Ascalon, an ancient port city in the Levant”), which was borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ʾašqəlôn).