Etymology

armet

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Today it means: A type of mediaeval helmet which fully enclosed the head and face, first found in the 1420s in Milan. Full definition →

French armet ← Middle French armet ← Old French helmet
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*helm“helmet”
  2. Old French · derived fromhelmet
  3. Middle French · derived fromarmet
  4. French · borrowed fromarmet
  5. English todayarmet

From French armet, from Middle French armet, heaumet, from Old French helmet, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *helm (“helmet”). Doublet of helm and helmet.

Words from the same roots

Proto-West Germanic*helm all →

helm

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