Etymology

restavec

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Today it means: A child sent by their parents to work for another household as a domestic servant. Full definition →

French reste-avec ← Haitian Creole restavèk
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The story

  1. French · derived fromavec“with”
  2. French · derived fromrester“stay”
  3. Haitian Creole · derived fromrestavèk
  4. French · borrowed fromreste-avec
  5. English todayrestavec

Borrowed French reste-avec, from Haitian Creole restavèk, from French rester (“stay”) + French avec (“with”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.