köken: From Middle High German ritter, from Middle Dutch ridder, Flemish byform of rîder, from rîden + -er (equivalent to German reiten + -er). In Middle High German, both ritter and rīter (whence modern Reiter) were used in the sense of “horseman”, “mounted man-at-arms”, as well as for the (emerging) rank of “knight”, and, by generalisation, any member of the lower nobility. Gradually, both forms were…
köken: Inherited from Middle French chevalier, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus. Doublet of cavalier.
aile: chevaleresse, chevalier blanc, chevalier cuivré, chevalier de la manchette, chevalier de la rosette, chevalier d'honneur, chevalier d'industrie, chevalier du guet, chevalier errant, chevalier servant
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: Inherited from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), probably of Gaulish [Term?] origin or from something further east, such as a Scythian and ultimately Proto-Iranian [Term?] origin. The Romanian word likely went through an earlier hypothetical form *căal or *caual. Compare Aromanian cal.
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.
köken: From Old Norse hestr (“stallion”), from Proto-Germanic *hanhistaz, a Verner alternation variant of *hangistaz, which is the source of the West Germanic word for “stallion”, cf. German Hengst and Danish hingst (a loanword from Low German).
aile: apostlenes heste, araberhest, arbejde som en hest, arbejdshest, bryggerhest, cirkushest, dressurhest, droschehest, fra hestens egen mule, fuldblodshest
köken: From Malay kuda. * Probably from Tamil குதிரை (kutirai). * Alternatively, from Prakrit 𑀖𑁄𑀟𑀬 (ghoḍaya), from Sanskrit घोटक (ghoṭaka), from Proto-Dravidian *kHutt-. The sense of knight (chess) is a semantic loan from Dutch paard (“knight (chess)”, literally “horse”).