köken: From regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the word…
aile: gilet de sauvetage, gilet jaune, gilet pare-balle, gilet pare-balles
vest, waistcoat (sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit) · vest (protective sleeveless garment worn over outer clothing) · ellipsis of rintaliivit (“bra”)
Etymology tree Old Occitan camisolabor. French camisole Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish kamizelka From French camisole + Polish -ka.