köken: From chevalier (“knight”) + -ière (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix). In the sense “signet ring”, an ellipsis of bague à la chevalière (“ring in knightly style”), first attested in 1821.
[…] ce chevalier est une chevalière … une pauvre femme comme moi !
a seal (a design usually representing some person or organization, an impression of that design on a document or other object with a stamp (in lacquer or wax or similar material), and a stamp bearing such a design)
çekim: çoğul sigills · tamlayan sigills
köken: Attested since 1460–1461 as Old Swedish sighel, sägel (in the compounds sighla vax, sägelvax, referring to sealing wax), ultimately from Latin sigillum (see there for more). Compare Danish sigil, segl (including older forms such as segel, sigel), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō), Middle Low German segel, seggel, Middle Dutch seghel (modern zegel), Old Frisian sigel, Middle High German sigel (modern German…