Etymology

cavalryman

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Today it means: A soldier in the cavalry. Full definition →

English man ← Middle English man ← Old English mann
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  1. Late Latincaballārius
  2. Old Occitancavalier
  3. Italiancavaliere
  4. Italiancavalleria
  5. Middle Frenchcavalerie
  6. Englishcavalry
  7. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  8. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  9. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  10. Old Englishmann
  11. Middle Englishman
  12. Englishman
  13. English todaycavalryman

From cavalry + man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.