garçon
French
noun
Definitions
- boy
- (by extension) young man; man
- Generic name of a male employee in some industries
Etymology
Inherited from Old French garçon (boy, servant) inherited from Latin garciō derived from Frankish *wrakkjō, *wrakjō (servant, boy) derived from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (exile, driven one, warrior, fugitive).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wrakjô
Gloss
exile, driven one, warrior, fugitive
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- garçon English
- gazoon English
- garciō Latin
- gāneōnem, gāneō Latin
- garzonato Italian
- garzone Italian
- garçonnière Italian
- garçon Dutch, Flemish
- garçonnet French
- garçonnier French
- garçonnière French
- гарсон Russian
- garzonier Spanish, Castilian
- garzón Spanish, Castilian
- *wreg- Proto-Indo-European
- garçom Portuguese
- garçon Portuguese
- *wrakjô Proto-Germanic
- ガルソン Japanese
- garsoniera Polish
- wrecca Old English
- wreċċa Old English
- garçon Old French
- garçun Old French
- garson Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- γκαρσόνι Greek (modern)
- reccho Old High German
- garson Turkish
- garçaon Norman
- garçon Norman
- garçonniéthe Norman
- *wrakkjō, *wrakjō Frankish
- *wrakkjō, *wrakkijō Frankish
- wrakjon, *wrakjon, *warkjon Frankish
- gason Haitian, Haitian Creole
- garson Mauritian Creole
- guaglione Neapolitan
- garson Seychellois Creole