köken: From Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ (“girl, woman”). Cognate with Old Turkic qïz ("girl, young lady, unmarried woman"), Turkish kız, Chuvash хӗр (hĕr), etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai قیز (qyz /qï̄z/), from Proto-Common Turkic *qï̄z, from Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ. Cognate with Uyghur قىز (qiz), Turkmen gȳz, Azerbaijani qız, Turkish kız (“girl”); Old Turkic 𐰶𐰃𐰕 (q̊²iz /qïz/); etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ (“girl, woman”). Cognate with Turkish kız, Azerbaijani qız, Kazakh қыз (qyz), Bashkir ҡыҙ (qıź), Tatar кыз (qız), and Chuvash хӗр (hĕr).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese donzela, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, from Latin domina. Compare Old Occitan donçela, Spanish doncella, French demoiselle.
köken: Initial meaning ‘maid, stepdaughter’, feminine of Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos, “servant, stepson”), from South Proto-Slavic *kopylъ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele); cf. also Albanian kopil (“bastard”), Romanian copilă (“child, girl”)).
köken: Attested since 1591. Origin according to Nationalencyklopediens ordbok (NEO) is uncertain. Possibly related to the modern Swedish word flik (“flap, tab”).
köken: Unknown. Related to Karelian impi. SSA also suggests that the word is related to Võro impe', but this word is only attested in Wiedemann's dictionary and appears to be a ghost word.