köken: Inherited from Old Spanish reyna, with an unexpected shift in stress from [reˈi.na] to [ˈrei̯.na], from Latin rēgīna (“queen”). Compare Portuguese rainha.
aile: abeja reina, brazo de reina, chapín de la reina, reina de la casa, reina de la noche, reina de los prados, reina del drama, reina del grito, reina del hogar, reina madre
köken: Ultimately from a South Slavic descendant of the Proto-Slavic *korľica, compare Bulgarian крали́ца (kralíca) and Serbo-Croatian кра̀љица/kràljica. Likely via Old Anatolian Turkish [Term?] or Ottoman Turkish قرالیچه (kraliçe).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ (“girl, woman”). Cognate with Old Turkic qïz ("girl, young lady, unmarried woman"), Turkish kız, Chuvash хӗр (hĕr), etc.
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.