young man; man · Generic name of a male employee in some industries · ellipsis of garçon de café
çekim: çoğul garçons
eş: gamin
köken: Inherited from Middle French garçon, from Old French garçon, garçun m (“servant, boy”), from Early Medieval Latin garciōnem, accusative of garciō m (“mercenary, servant, boy”), from Frankish *wrakkjō (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”). Cognate with Old English wreċċa (“exile, outcast”), whence Modern English wretch.
aile: enterrement de vie de garçon, garçon de cabine, garçon de café, garçon de caisse, garçon de cuisine, garçon de ferme, garçon de restaurant, garçon de salle, garçon de service, garçon d'étage
köken: Uncertain. Loaned into Hungarian gyermek (“child”) through Old Bulgar. Cognate with Proto-Mongolic *jermegei (“young man”), itself probably borrowed from a Turkic source. A hypothetical Proto-Turkic *yermek ~ *yermük can be reconstructed, however there are seemingly no Common Turkic cognates. Róna-Tas also suggests a connection with Proto-Turkic *yabrïg (“child of an animal”), whence ҫӑвӑр…
köken: From chłop + -ak. Originally from the Mazovian dialect, as there is a tendency to use the suffix -ak instead of -ę to create young nouns (compare Polish dziecię vs Polish dzieciak, źrebię vs źrebak). First attested in 1731.