.]] Valet and Varlet are terms for male servant. Etymology In English, valet "personal man-servant" is recorded since 1567, derived from the French valet (the t being silent), an Old French variant of vaslet "man's servant," originally "squire, young man," assumed to be from Gallo-Romance *vassellittus "young nobleman, squire, page," diminutive of Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus "servant", itself from an Old Celtic root wasso- "young man, squire" (cognate of Welsh gwas "youth, servant," Breton goaz "servant, vassal, man," Irish foss "servant"). See yeoman possibly derived from yonge man. The modern use is usually short for the valet de chambre (French for 'chamber valet') described in the following section. In American English, the word is nowadays generally pronounced with a silent 't', as in French,