köken: Inherited from Old French chastelain, castelain, from Latin castellānus. By surface analysis, château + -ain. Doublet of castillan, a borrowing from Spanish.
a lady ((respectful way to refer to a) woman – similar tone to English in different contexts) · a woman (idiomatically, in some contexts, for example women's clothing and women's sports – often paired with herre as a respectful term for a man) · the ladies' room, the ladies' (short for damernas toalett)
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 Borrowed from French dame. Doublet of domina.
köken: Perhaps related to דִּין (dín, “law”) or from Proto-Semitic *ʾadan- (“to rule, judge”). Compare Ugaritic 𐎀𐎄𐎚 (ảdt, “lady”), Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, “lord”), Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis, “mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite”).
köken: Feminine of dominus. If Oscan διομανας (diomanas, gen. sg.) is cognate, one can reconstruct Proto-Italic *domVnā with an uncertain second vowel; see its entry for discussion.
aile: domna, domicella, *domnicella
Etimoloji
From *džotnja, from Proto-Albanian *dzwāptnjā, from earlier *w(i)tspátnjā, from Proto-Indo-European *wiḱ-pót-nih₂ (“clan matriarch”), from *wiḱpótis (compare Lithuanian viešpatni (“lady”)), compound of *weyḱ- (“clan, kindred”) (compare Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house (clan)”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌𐬚 (viθ, “royal court”)) and *pótnih₂ (compare Ancient Greek πότνια (pótnia)), feminine of *pótis (“master”).…