valet
French
noun
Definitions
- (history) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
- (history) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
- a male servant, a footman
- a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
- (card games) jack
Etymology
Inherited from Old French vaslet derived from Latin vassallus (vassal) derived from Gaulish *wassos (squire, young man) derived from Proto-Celtic *wastos (servant).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*wastos
Gloss
servant
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *vassellittus Latin
- vallettus Latin
- vasallo Latin
- vassallus Latin
- vassus Latin
- valetaille French
- валет Russian
- valet Spanish, Castilian
- valet Portuguese
- *gaizaz Proto-Germanic
- walet Polish
- fos Irish
- vaslet Old French
- vassal Old French
- vasselet Old French
- gwas Welsh
- gwasanaeth Welsh
- heddwas Welsh
- foss Old Irish
- valet Norman
- valeter Norman
- вале Bulgarian
- valet Middle French
- vassalo Old Portuguese
- *wastos Proto-Celtic
- vasallo Old Spanish
- *wassos Gaulish
- uassos Gaulish
- gos Cumbric