woman · wife · alternative form of fem (“femme, feminine lesbian”) (contrast butch)
çekim: çoğul femmes
eş: blanc bonnet, bonne-femme, créature, criature, dame, fille d’Ève
köken: Inherited from Middle French femme, from Old French fam(m)e, fem(m)e, fenme, from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). The Old French pronunciation was [fɛ̃mə], which then became [fãmə] through lowering of nasal vowels, finally [famə] in Middle French through denasalisation…
aile: bonne femme, ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut, femme au foyer, femme au volant, mort au tournant, femme cartée, femme d'affaires, femme de chambre, femme de charge, femme de Dieu, femme de lettres
Ce fut le soir du mariage à l'église que le comte Muffat se présenta dans la chambre de sa femme, où il n'était pas entré depuis deux ans.
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: 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 Byzantine Greek κορίτσι (korítsi) (also form κορίτσιν (korítsin), diminutive of Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) + -ίτσι (-ítsi), form of -ίτσιν (-ítsin). Cognate with Mariupol Greek кури́ц (kuríc).
daughter · virgin, maiden · little girl, young lady
köken: ⟨woto₂me₁⟩ → /wotome/ → /otome/ From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Compound of おと (oto, cognate with Old Japanese verb 復つ otsu, “to become young”) + 女 (me, “girl, female”). Contrasts with 男 (otoko, “man”, original meaning of “boy”). See also 娘 (musume, “daughter”), 姫 (hime, “princess”).
köken: Attested since 1591. Origin according to Nationalencyklopediens ordbok (NEO) is uncertain. Possibly related to the modern Swedish word flik (“flap, tab”).
maid (female servant) · girl · a girlchild (term of endearment)
çekim: çoğul piiat · tamlayan piian
köken: Uncertain. The word may be a borrowing from Old Norse píka (“girl, lass, virgin”) (compare Swedish piga (“maid, female servant; female employee on a farm”)) or the Norse term might be from Finnic (compare Estonian piiga (“girl”), Karelian piika (“maid; girl (especially Virgin Mary)”), Votic piikõ (“maid, girl”)). Has sometimes been compared with Turkic words (Chuvash пике (pik̬e, “(young) lady,…