dame
Afrikaans
noun
Definitions
- lady
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish dame (lady) inherited from Middle Dutch dame derived from Middle French dame (dame, double checkers piece) derived from Old French dame (term of address for a woman, the queen in card games and chess, lady, woman) derived from Latin domina (mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household).
Origin
Latin
domina
Gloss
mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婦
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- domina English
- *domnicella Latin
- domina Latin
- domna Latin
- dam Dutch, Flemish
- dame Dutch, Flemish
- damesblad Dutch, Flemish
- dameskapper Dutch, Flemish
- dameskleding Dutch, Flemish
- damespistooltje Dutch, Flemish
- dammen Dutch, Flemish
- hofdame Dutch, Flemish
- dame French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- dame Middle English
- damma Old Norse
- dame Old French
- dame Middle Dutch
- danme Norman
- dame Middle French
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- daime Bourguignon
- danme Picard