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: Borrowed from Classical Persian عیال ('ayāl), from Arabic عِيَال (ʕiyāl). The semantic sense of “wife, woman” is not present in the original Arabic term and may be a Persian (or more likely Turkic) innovation. Compare Azerbaijani əyal, Uyghur ئايال (ayal).
köken: From Old Swedish kvinna, from Runic Swedish kuino, from Old Norse kvæna, from kván (“wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Cognate with English queen.
köken: Uncertain. Displaced niewiasta (now considered poetic) and żona (meaning narrowed down to “wife”). Popularized by the Polish Romantic writers in the 19th century. First attested in 1545. * Possibly from Old Polish kob (“pigpen”) or koba (“mare”) (the ending -ieta is found in some contemporaneous female names (e.g. Markieta, Elżbieta, Greta)); however, this theory has been rejected by most…
aile: kobieciarz, kobieciątko, kobiecina, kobieta fatalna, kobieta luksusowa, kobieta publiczna, kobieta sukcesu, kobieta z przeszłością, kobieton, być kobietą
Konew piwá z imbierem pod ſobą piáſtuiąc/ Popiją ſie kobiety ſpołu ſie cżeſtuiąc
Accede ad ignem hunc, iam caleſces plus ſatis. Przyſtąp ſie do kobiety/ będzieſz ćiepł ná trzy zbyty.
Przyszła kobieta nadobna młoda achuda iako by znaycięszszego oblezenia.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *naaras, probably derived from Proto-Uralic *naxe- (whence naida, nainen) + *-ra; compare koiras. Alternatively and less likely borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́riH (compare Sanskrit नारी (nā́rī)). Indo-Iranian etymology is rejected by Holopainen (2019).
köken: Borrowed from French femelle f, from Middle French femelle, from Old French femele, ultimately derived from Latin fēmella f, a diminutive of fēmina (“woman”). Cognates include Catalan femella f, Occitan femèla f, Franco-Provençal femèla f, Norman feunmelle f.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰánHs Proto-Iranian *ǰánHs Middle Persian [script needed] (zan) Persian زن Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (zan), from Proto-Iranian *ǰánHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰánHs, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s, from *gʷḗn. Cognates include English queen, Northern Kurdish jin, Greek γυναίκα…