maréchal
French
noun
Definitions
- marshal (officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord)
Etymology
Derived from Frankish *marhskalk (equerry, servant assigned to horses).
Origin
Frankish
*marhskalk
Gloss
equerry, servant assigned to horses
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mariscalcus Latin
- maniscalco Italian
- maresciallo Italian
- maréchalat French
- mariscal Spanish, Castilian
- marescal Old French
- mareschal Old French
- marah-scalc Old High German
- mareschal Middle French
- მარშალი Georgian
- *marhskalk Frankish