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Meaning
noun a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
originFrom Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0