The story
- Arabic · derived fromالْقَائِد
- Turkish · derived fromulak
- Greek · derived fromλακές
- Italian · derived fromlacchè
- Spanish · derived fromlacayo
- Old Occitan · derived fromlacai
- Middle French · borrowed fromlaquais
- English todaylackey
Borrowed from Middle French laquais, which is probably (via Old Occitan lacai?) from Spanish lacayo, itself perhaps from Italian lacchè and Greek λακές (lakés), from Turkish ulak. Another possibility is through French, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid). See French laquais.
Words from the same roots
Arabicالْقَائِد all →
alcaide
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.