köken: From Middle High German witewe, from Old High German wituwa, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”). Germanic cognates include Dutch weduwe, Old Saxon widowa, Old English widuwe, whence English widow, which see.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish viuda, vibda, bibda, biuda, from Latin vidua, following metathesis. The Spanish word may have had some later influence from the Latin in the Middle Ages; compare the strictly popular Old Spanish form viuva, which is the form also found in Portuguese and Old Catalan, deriving from a Latin *viduva.
aile: enviudar, flor de la viuda, pico de viuda, viuda negra, viudedad, viudez
köken: From Proto-Turkic *tul(k) (“widow(er)”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱄𐰆𐰟 (tul), Old Uyghur [script needed] (tul, “widow”); Kazakh тұл (tūl), Uzbek tul, Turkish dul (“widow(er)”), etc.
Often used as an attributive, in preposition to other nouns
widow (a woman whose husband has died) · white-headed marsh tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala), a passerine bird · fawn-breasted tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota), a passerine bird
çekim: çoğul viúvas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese viuva, from Vulgar Latin *viduva, from Classical Latin vidua (“widow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Displaced Old Portuguese collateral form viuda, from the same Classical Latin word.
köken: From Ancient Greek χήρα (khḗra), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁ro- (“derelict”), from the root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind, abandon”). Cognate with Latin heres.
widow (woman whose spouse has died) · widower (man whose spouse has died)
çekim: çoğul özvegyek
köken: Of unknown origin according to Zaicz. Some, e.g. Róna-Tas and Berta, support Munkácsi's etymology as a loan from Alanic *iδæǰ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwidʰáwaH (modern Ossetian идӕдз (idæʒ)), with the same development of *wi- as in öl.
köken: From Proto-Italic *wiðowā, Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit विधवा (vidhávā), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos), Proto-Slavic *vьdova and Old English widuwe (English widow).