Etymology

vessell

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Middle English vessel ← Old French vaissel
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromvaissel
  2. Middle English · derived fromvessel
  3. English todayVessell

Metonymic occupational surname for a maker of household vessels, from Middle English vessel, itself from Old French vaissel.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishvessel all →

vessel

Old Frenchvaissel all →

vessel

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.