Etymology

goyslave

G2O1Y4S1L1A1V4E1

Today it means: A person beholden to Jewish interests. Full definition →

English slave ← Middle English sclave ← Old French esclave
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Biblical Hebrewגּוֹי (goi)
  2. Yiddishגוי (goy)
  3. Englishgoy
  4. Proto-Indo-European*ḱlewH-der.?
  5. Proto-Slavic*slov-
  6. Proto-Slavic*Slov-?
  7. Proto-Slavic*slověninъ
  8. Ancient GreekΣκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)
  9. Medieval GreekΣκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)
  10. Late LatinSclavus
  11. Medieval Latinsclavus
  12. Old Frenchesclave
  13. Middle Englishsclave
  14. Englishslave
  15. English todaygoyslave

From goy + slave.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.