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: Borrowed from Classical Persian عیال ('ayāl), from Arabic عِيَال (ʕiyāl). The semantic sense of “wife, woman” is not present in the original Arabic term and may be a Persian (or more likely Turkic) innovation. Compare Azerbaijani əyal, Uyghur ئايال (ayal).
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 (In this latter sense, vrouw was itself superseded by dame, although the archaic form vrouwe…
third-person feminine singular nominative pronoun she; it · third-person feminine singular prepositional pronoun her · third-person feminine singular pronoun used in all positions she; it; her
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese ela, from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Cognate with Galician ela and Spanish ella.
Ela está aqui perto.
Pensei que você tivesse dito que ela estava só mandando você escrever!
he, she, that person over there (third person singular) · he, she, that person both of us know (third person singular) · my husband, partner (of a female speaker)
köken: Calque of Japanese 彼女 (kanojo, “she”, pronoun), coined by Kim Dong-in prior to 1951 as 그 (geu, “that”) + 녀(女) (nyeo, “woman, girl”). The noun meaning was created due to the literary overtones of the pronoun, possibly with influence from Japanese 彼女 (kanojo, “girlfriend”).
she; the third-person, singular, feminine pronoun in the nominative case · it (for certain nouns that were feminine in Old Swedish)
köken: From Old Swedish hōn, from Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō (compare *ainaz). Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.
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.
he, she, one, they sg (only of a human being; gender-neutral)
eş: se
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hän (compare Estonian enda, Veps hän), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän (compare Northern Sami son, Erzya сон (son), Komi-Zyrian сійӧ (sijö), Hungarian ő). In practically all dialects (except potentially Ingrian Finnish), se is the most common third-person pronoun for people, and this is also reflected in colloquial Finnish. hän was most often used in indirect speech (as a…
köken: From Old Norse hón (“she”), from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ (*hanu), the feminine form, with u-umlaut, of *ᚺᚨᚾᚨᛉ (*hanaʀ) (= Danish han (“he”), Old Norse hann).