köken: Borrowed from Italian cavalier, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horse rider”). Early loans into Middle High German, as cavali(e)r, are recorded for the 14th century, but remained without direct continuants. Renewed loan in the later 16th century, as Caval(l)ier, Cavaglier, Cavalierer , at the time with Italian plural Cavalieri, but in the 17th century replaced with the…
köken: Borrowed from Italian cavaliere, itself borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius. Doublet of chevalier, which was inherited.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cavaleiro, from Late Latin caballārius, from caballus (“horse”) + -ārius. By surface analysis, cavalo (“horse”) + -eiro. Doublet of cavalheiro, through Spanish caballero.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Late Latin caballus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Late Latin -āriusnom. Late Latin -ārius Late Latin caballāriusder. Old Occitan cavalierbor. Italian cavalierebor. French cavalierbor. ▲ Italian cavalierebor. Russian кавале́р (kavalér)bor. Romanian cavaler Borrowed from Russian кавале́р (kavalér), from French cavalier, Italian…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos Proto-Italic *ekwos Latin equus Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Latin -es Latin eques From equus (“horse”) + -es (“-faring”). Compare pedes, mīles for similar formations.
knight (a medieval horseman) · knight (a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch) · knight (a member of the equestrian order in Ancient Rome)
çekim: çoğul riddere · tamlayan ridders
köken: From Middle Low German ridder (“rider, knight”), from Middle Dutch riddere, a Flemish variant of rîdere, from rîden (“to ride”) + -er. It was used to translate Old French chevalier (“knight”). The Dutch word was also borrowed to German Ritter, Old Norse riddari, and Swedish riddare.