köken: Borrowed from English velvet, from Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Late Latin villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus. Doublet of welur.
köken: From English velveret, backformed with /m/ because /v/ is its soft mutation (see similar examples: mantais (“advantage”), melfed (“velvet”), mursen (“coquette; damselfly”), mentr (“venture”)).