Word Origin Summary

Servir is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. servioLatininherited from
2. servirFrenchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• serveerata

  Finnish · derived from

• sèvi

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• carte-servering

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• салфетка

  Russian · derived from

• servera

  Swedish · derived from

• à la carte-servering

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• салфетка

  Halh Mongolian · derived from

• servir

  French · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root