PIE *wel, turn, roll, volume, vulvaを伴う語源、-et, small word suffixから来た可能性がある。派生語源は小包、財布。
英語の語源
wallet
wallet: [19] Etymologically, a wallet may be something ‘rolled’ up. The word originally denoted a ‘traveller’s pack’; its application to a ‘small flat case for money and papers’ arose in 19th-century American English. It was probably borrowed from an Anglo-Norman *walet, which could have been formed from the prehistoric Germanic base *wal- ‘roll’ (source also of English wallow).
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 *wel- (3) (see volvox). Meaning "flat case for carrying paper money" is first recorded 1834, American English.
例文
1. I got out my wallet and began to dole out the money.
私は財布を取り出してお金を配り始めた。
2.I felt for my wallet and papers in my inside pocket.
私はポケットの中で財布と証明書を触っています。
3.He took out his fat wallet and peeled off some notes.
彼はドラムの財布を取り出し、何枚かの紙幣を引き出した。
4.At Brussels airport he fell vistim to pickpockets who pinched his wallet .
ブリュッセル空港ですりに狙われ、財布が盗まれた。
5.The men rifled through his clothing and snatched the wallet .