Where does the word cabaret come from?

Answer 1

most directly from France in the 17th century where it was already a tavern

but only a tavern for it didnt become a restaurant night club til 1912

& didnt add the floor show til 1922

but even the plain old style cabaret wasnt native to France

for it had come to France previously

meaning not necessarily a tavern but any chamber

via middle dutch cambret

which came from camberete & cambre in the picard dialect of old frisian

& yet none of these forebears were native to northern Europe either

but had arrived there much earlier straight from ancient Rome in the form of camera

which also only meant chamber or room rather than tavern

but particularly a vaulted room at first

because camera had come to rome from Athens

where its ancestor kamara meant only a vaulted chamber

& kamara is believed to have reached Athens from the hypothetical proto indo European particle or word kam meaning to arch

so to that extent the word cabaret is thought to come from a word meaning to arch

in the indo European heartland

which is to say the crimean basin of Ukraine & Russia around 5600 bc

& perhaps centuries before that

from the caucasian heartland in the caucasus

but before that is anyones guess