Latin

Noun

vassallus m ‎(genitive vassallī); second declension

1. vassal
2. servant

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Old French: vassal
  • Old French: vasselage, vassalage, vassallage
    • Middle French: vasselage, vasselaige, vassellage
      • French: vasselage
    • → Middle English: vasselage, vassellage, vassallage
      • English: vassalage
    • → Italian: vassallaggio
    • → Old Provençal: vassalatge
      • Old Catalan: vassallatge
        • Catalan: vassallatge
      • Occitan: vassalatge
    • → Spanish: vasallaje, vasallage
  • Middle French: vassal
    • French: vassal
      • → Czech: vazal
      • → Danish: vasal
      • → Polish: wasal
      • → Russian: васса́л ‎(vassál); вассальный ‎(vassalʹnyj)
        • → Armenian: վասալ ‎(vasal)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: vàzāl
  • Norman: vassa
  • → Middle Dutch: vassael, vasael, vasal, vasseel
    • Dutch: vazal
  • → Middle English: vassal
    • Middle English: vassal, vasal
  • → Middle High German: vassal
    • German: Vassal
• Galician: vasalo
• Italian: vassallo
• Portuguese: vassalo
• Old Provençal:
  • Old Catalan: vassall, uassal, uassall, vasal
    • Catalan: vassall
  • Occitan: vassal
• Old Spanish: vasallo, uasallo, uassallo, uasiello, vassallo
  • Spanish: vasallo
• → Finnish: vasalli, vasallius; vasallimaa; vasallivaltio
• → Irish: vasáilleach

References

• VASSALLUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)