köken: Inherited from Middle French and Old French esclave, a borrowing from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”). Doublet of slave.
köken: Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kul. Cognates with Azerbaijani qul, Bashkir ҡол (qol), Kazakh құл (qūl), Southern Altai кул (kul), Tatar кол (qol), Turkish kul, Turkmen gul, Uzbek qul.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kul (“slave”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰞 (qul, “slave”), Karakhanid قُلْ (qul, “slave”); Kazakh құл (qūl), Kyrgyz кул (kul), Southern Altai кул (kul), Bashkir ҡол (qol), Uzbek qul, Khakas хул (xul), Turkish kul (“slave”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kul (“slave”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰞 (qul, “slave”), Karakhanid قُلْ (qul, “slave”); Kazakh құл (qūl), Kyrgyz кул (kul), Southern Altai кул (kul), Uyghur قۇل (qul), Uzbek qul, Khakas хул (xul), Turkish kul (“slave”), etc.
serf, carl (partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights)
Inherited from Latin servus, from Proto-Italic *serwos (“guardian”), from Proto-Indo-European *serwos (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Doublet of serv, which was a borrowing.