Noun: slavey
| Singular | slavey |
| Plural | slaveys; slavies |
Sample Sentences
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I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […] [1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 81:]
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"Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures." [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:]
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"The short-haired slavey who had opened the door now put in an appearance as waiter." [1887, Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House, Norman L. Munro, published 1887, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like slavey
whiskey,
whimsey,
smiley,
slavey,
rent money,
ready money,
fiat money,
foreign money,
seed money,
bar money,
ship money,
dorey,
gooey,
coney,
jakey,
poney,
prize money,
drinks trolley,
credit money,
tim-whiskey, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substrateder.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.?
4. Proto-Slavic *slov-
5. Proto-Slavic *-ǫta
6. Proto-Slavic *Slov-?
7. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas
8. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
10. Proto-Slavic *-inъ
11. Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ
12. Proto-Slavic *slověninъbor.
13. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der.
14. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor.
15. Late Latin Sclavus
16. Medieval Latin sclavusbor.
17. Old French esclavebor.
18. Middle English sclave
19. English slave
20. English -y
21. English slavey
22. From slave + -y.
23. Piecewise doublet of Slavic.