woman (adult female human) · wife (married woman, especially in relation to her spouse) · a title of courtesy, equivalent to Mrs/Ms, which has nearly replaced Fräulein in the function of Miss
köken: From Middle High German vrouwe, from Old High German frouwa (“mistress”), from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”), giving Old English frēa (“lord, king; God, Christ; husband”), frēo (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”). Cognate with Old Saxon frūa (hence Middle Low German vrouwe, Modern…
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bʾnwk'), [Manichaean needed] (bʾnwg /bānūg/), from Old Persian *bānūka-. Akin to Old Armenian բանուկան (banukan), an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Attested since 1591. Origin according to Nationalencyklopediens ordbok (NEO) is uncertain. Possibly related to the modern Swedish word flik (“flap, tab”).
Miss (title of an unmarried woman) · Miss (polite form of address for a young female stranger; also used to address a female waiter but now somewhat dated in this sense) · miss, young lady (a young woman or girl, especially one of sophistication)
çekim: çoğul neidit · tamlayan neidin
köken: From Proto-Finnic *näitei, variant of neito.
girl (female child) · woman: can be a compliment or an insult
çekim: çoğul יְלָדוֹת
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Dancapige, pige i huset, tjenestepige, tøs (nötr) /ˈpiːə/
girl (a female child or adolescent) · girl, woman (a female adult, underplaying the age) · girl, girlfriend (a woman as a potential or actual sexual partner)
çekim: çoğul piger · tamlayan piges
köken: Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around).