वैश्य

Etymology
From the root.

Adjective

 * 1) belonging to a Vaishya

Noun

 * 1) literally from root √viś "a man who settles on the soil", a peasant, or "working man", agriculturist; a Vaishya - man of the third class or caste (whose business was trade as well as agriculture)
 * 2)  name of a people

Noun

 * 1) vassalage, dependence