köken: Inherited from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, diminutive of Latin domina. Compare Spanish doncella and damisela, Italian donzella and damigella, Portuguese donzela. Doublet of donzelle. See Romanian domnișoară.
aile: demoiselle d'honneur, demoiselle en détresse, mademoiselle
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: 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”).