The word "chevalier" (chevalier) originated precisely from the French same "chval" (cheval, horse) and literally means "the rider". That is all right, the French peasants called horses -))))
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The French asked the peasants for horses to travel to Paris. How do you ask if you don’t know Russian? Naturally, repeating "shval, shval" and throwing a finger at the horse. The peasants, when they saw another Frenchman at the threshold, said, “The swallow has come again.” So it went. From there, the word "sharomyzhnik" is a distorted French "sherami" = dear friend. A "Shantra" appeared in the epoch of the bloom of the fortress theaters: so they called those who were not suitable for the opera (in French, шантра pa = will not sing).
Interestingly, all three humiliating words are on the letter "S".