marchal
Middle English
/ˈmaristʃal/
noun
Definitions
- A high-ranking officer in the household of the English royal court.
- One who looks after or supervises horses; a stablemaster.
- A supreme military leader; one who heads an armed force.
- A supervisor of the (alongside the king's steward).
- A supervisor of the procedure or ceremonial activity of a court.
- (rare) The head officer of the English royal court.
Etymology
Borrowed from marescal borrowed from Old French marescal derived from Latin mariscalcus derived from Frankish *marhskalk (equerry, servant assigned to horses) derived from Old High German marah-scalc (horse-servant) derived from Proto-Germanic *marhaz (horse).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*marhaz
Gloss
horse
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
馬
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- archmarshal English
- field marshal English
- marshal English
- marshalate English
- marshalcy English
- marshaler English
- marshaless English
- marshalship English
- mere English
- remarshal English
- submarshal English
- unmarshal English
- mariscalcus Latin
- maniscalco Italian
- maréchal French
- mariscal Spanish, Castilian
- *márkos Proto-Indo-European
- *marhaz Proto-Germanic
- mearh Old English
- mere Old English
- erle Middle English
- erle marchal Middle English
- mere Middle English
- marr Old Norse
- marskal Danish
- marescal Old French
- mareschal Old French
- marah Old High German
- marah-scalc Old High German
- *𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌷𐍃 Gothic
- *marhskalk Frankish
- marhskalk Frankish
- marescal xno