köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 언제 (Yale: encey). From 어느 (enu, “what”) + 적 (cek, “time”) + -의 (-uy, “at”), literally "at what time". In Middle Korean the word was strictly a question word; the indefinite meaning developed in the eighteenth century.
köken: From Old Swedish damb, dåm (“dust, steam”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and Danish damp (“vapor, steam, fog”), German Dampf, Icelandic dampi, English damp (“moderately wet”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dem- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dṓmder. Proto-Italic *domanos Proto-Italic *domanā Latin domina Late Latin domna Old French dame French damebor. Polish dama Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish damka From dama + -ka.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *emä (compare Estonian ema), from Proto-Uralic *emä (compare Hungarian eme (“sow”), Tundra Nenets небя (nyebya)). Mostly displaced in the sense “mother (of a person)” by the borrowed äiti.