English
casket
Casket may come from Norman cassette.
- Normanc. 1066–presentcassetteuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1604–1605casket
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Normanc. 1066–presentcassetteuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1604–1605casket
Earliest quotation: c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, All’s Well, that Ends Well: “I have […] casketed my treasure.”
The story
Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *kap-
had, head, except, heavy, capital, behavior, captain, chapter, catch, achieve, heavily, capacity, escape, chef, occupation, acceptance, haven, chapel, behave, cape, cattle, cabin, hawk, capitol, precipitation, capita, captive, chaplain, conceive, captivity, mischief, conceivable, mischievous, cad, haves, chieftain, precipitate, capillary, occipital, acceptability, 139 more
through Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti ‘to be grasping’
acceptable, heave, heaving, heft, imperceptible, 28 more
through Proto-Italic *kapjō ‘to take, to seize’
accept, receive, capable, cable, recipe, reception, capture, perception, recipient, anticipation, anticipate, susceptible, deception, caption, deceive, deceptive, cater, deceit, preoccupation, receivable, perceptible, preceptor, sashay, 29 more
through Proto-Italic *kapsos
through Latin capsa ‘a box, case, holder, repository’
through Old French chasse ‘chest’
through Old Northern French casse ‘Old Norman form of chasse’
Today it means
noun A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Norman cassette / casket