Wallet

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late Middle English (denoting a bag for provisions): probably via Anglo-Norman French from a Germanic word related to well2. The current sense (originally US) dates from the mid 19th century.


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From Middle English walet(“bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet(“roll; bag; knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal-(“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.


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wallet (n.)

late 14c., "bag, knapsack," of uncertain origin, probably from an unrecorded Old North French *walet "roll, knapsack," or similar Germanic word in Anglo-French or Old French, from Proto-Germanic *wall- "roll," from PIE root *wel- (3) "to turn, revolve." Meaning "flat case for carrying paper money" is first recorded 1834, American English.