köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dwhtl /duxtar/), oblique case of [Book Pahlavi needed] (dwht' /duxt/), from Old Persian *duxçī-, from Proto-Iranian *dúgdā. Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit दुहिता (duhitā), Northern Kurdish dot, Pashto لور (lur), Mazanderani دتر (deter), Baluchi دہت (duht).
köken: From Middle Dutch vrouwe, from Old Dutch frouwa, vrouwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ. Vrouw replaced wijf as a neutral descriptor for a woman in the Early Modern period (see there for more), whereas vrouw mostly referred to well-off or aristocratic women in Middle Dutch. (In this latter sense, vrouw was itself superseded by dame, although the archaic form vrouwe…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese femea, femẽa (“female”), from Latin fēmina (“woman, wife, female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Cognate with Galician femia, Spanish hembra, Occitan femna, French femme, Italian femmina and Romanian famen.
köken: From Old Swedish kvinna, from Runic Swedish kuino, from Old Norse kvæna, from kván (“wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Cognate with English queen.
köken: Uncertain. Displaced niewiasta (now considered poetic) and żona (meaning narrowed down to “wife”). Popularized by the Polish Romantic writers in the 19th century. First attested in 1545. * Possibly from Old Polish kob (“pigpen”) or koba (“mare”) (the ending -ieta is found in some contemporaneous female names (e.g. Markieta, Elżbieta, Greta)); however, this theory has been rejected by most…
aile: kobieciarz, kobieciątko, kobiecina, kobieta fatalna, kobieta luksusowa, kobieta publiczna, kobieta sukcesu, kobieta z przeszłością, kobieton, być kobietą
Konew piwá z imbierem pod ſobą piáſtuiąc/ Popiją ſie kobiety ſpołu ſie cżeſtuiąc
Accede ad ignem hunc, iam caleſces plus ſatis. Przyſtąp ſie do kobiety/ będzieſz ćiepł ná trzy zbyty.
Przyszła kobieta nadobna młoda achuda iako by znaycięszszego oblezenia.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *naaras, probably derived from Proto-Uralic *naxe- (whence naida, nainen) + *-ra; compare koiras. Alternatively and less likely borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́riH (compare Sanskrit नारी (nā́rī)). Indo-Iranian etymology is rejected by Holopainen (2019).
köken: Borrowed from French femelle f, from Middle French femelle, from Old French femele, ultimately derived from Latin fēmella f, a diminutive of fēmina (“woman”). Cognates include Catalan femella f, Occitan femèla f, Franco-Provençal femèla f, Norman feunmelle f.
köken: From nő (“woman”) + -s + -t + -n (diminutive suffixes). For the cluster -s + -t, compare nyest (“marten”); for -t + -n, compare isten (“god, deity”). For the semantic shift ‘woman’ > ‘female’, compare Latin fēmina (“woman”) > fēmella (“girl, young woman”).
köken: From Old Danish quinnæ, kvinnæ, from Old Norse kvenna, the genitive plural indefinite of kona (“woman, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Related to English queen via Proto-Germanic *kwēniz.