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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-610/
- Published: 2021-09-30T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-06T22:02:44.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

vassal (noun) –

1 : a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant  
2 : one in a subservient or subordinate position

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vassal?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vassallus “serf of the manor house, household servant, lord’s man who has received a fief”. Borrowed from Gaulish wassall-, derivative of wass- “servant” (whence Medieval Latin vassus “serf, servant, holder of a fief”), going back to Celtic wosto-, whence Welsh gwas “boy, servant,” Middle Breton goas, Old Irish foss “servant, attendant”

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