Etymograph

English

kmet

Kmet comes from Serbo-Croatian kmȅt ‘serf, peon’, and goes back to Latin comes ‘a companion, comrade, partner, associate’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomesas comitem‘a companion, comrade, partner, associate’
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*kъmetьreconstructed
  3. Serbo-Croatianmodernkmȅt‘serf, peon’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1876kmet

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomesas comitem‘a companion, comrade, partner, associate’
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*kъmetьreconstructed
  3. Serbo-Croatianmodernkmȅt‘serf, peon’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1876kmet

Earliest quotation: 1876, Arthur John Evans: “Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the…”

Linked words

through Latin comes ‘a companion, comrade, partner, associate’

county, comes, count, conte, concomitant, comitatus, 6 more

Today it means

noun A serf in Southeastern Europe, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin comes / kmet

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