garçon
English
noun
Definitions
- A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).
Etymology
Borrowed from French garçon (boy, lad, young man, waiter) derived from Old French garçun (servant) derived from Latin garciō derived from Frankish *wrakkjō, *wrakjō (servant, boy) derived from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (exile, driven one, warrior, fugitive) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (drive, track, follow, urge, push, hunt, press, shove, track down).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wreg-
Gloss
drive, track, follow, urge, push, hunt, press, shove, track down
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gazoon English
- garciō Latin
- garzone Italian
- garçon Dutch, Flemish
- garçon French
- garçonnet French
- garçonnier French
- garçonnière French
- гарсон Russian
- garzón Spanish, Castilian
- *wreg- Proto-Indo-European
- garçom Portuguese
- garçon Portuguese
- *gawrekaną Proto-Germanic
- *rankiz Proto-Germanic
- *wrakjô Proto-Germanic
- *wrakō Proto-Germanic
- *wrekaną Proto-Germanic
- *wrēkō Proto-Germanic
- ガルソン Japanese
- wrecca Old English
- wreċċa Old English
- wrecche Middle English
- rekkr Old Norse
- garçon Old French
- garçun Old French
- garson Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- γκαρσόνι Greek (modern)
- reccho Old High German
- garson Turkish
- garçaon Norman
- garçon Norman
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *wrakkjō, *wrakjō Frankish
- *wrakkjō, *wrakkijō Frankish
- wrakjon, *wrakjon, *warkjon Frankish
- gason Haitian, Haitian Creole
- garson Mauritian Creole
- werke Tocharian B
- garson Seychellois Creole