palfrey

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Metonymic occupational surname for a man responsible for the maintenance and provision of saddle-horses, from Middle English palfrey.

From Middle English palfrey, from Anglo-Norman palefrei (“steed”), from Old French palefroi, palefreid, from Late Latin paraverēdus (“post horse, spare horse”), from Ancient Greek παρά (pará) + Latin verēdus (“post horse”), from Gaulish *werēdos (“horse”) (compare Welsh gorwydd (“horse”)), from Proto-Celtic *uɸoreidos (“horse”). Doublet of prad. Compare Dutch paard and German Pferd.

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: palafrè — small horse
• Catalan: palafré — small horse
• Dutch: palefroot — small horse
• Esperanto: paradĉevalo — small horse
• Finnish: palfrey-hevonen — small horse
• French: palefroi — small horse
• Middle French: palefroy — small horse
• Old French: palefreid — small horse
• Old French: palefrei — small horse
• Galician: palafrén — small horse
• German: Zelter — small horse
• Italian: palafreno — small horse
• Japanese: ポールフリ (pōrufuri) — small horse
• Latin: paraverēdus — small horse
• Old Occitan: palafré — small horse
• Portuguese: palafrém — small horse
• Romanian: buiestraș — small horse
• Russian: бахма́т (baxmát) — small horse
• Russian: машта́к (mašták) — small horse
• Spanish: palafrén — small horse