damo
Esperanto
/ˈdamo/
head
Definitions
- (chess) queen
- checkers king
- (title) Dame, Lady
Etymology
Derived from Spanish, Castilian dama (lady, dame) derived from French dame (lady, king doubled piece in checkers) derived from Latin domina (mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (house, home, a house).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dṓm
Gloss
house, home, a house
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dame English
- damehood English
- damely English
- dameship English
- damewort English
- domina English
- schooldame English
- stepdame English
- *domnicella Latin
- domesticus Latin
- domina Latin
- dominus Latin
- domna Latin
- domus Latin
- Dame German
- dama Italian
- dame French
- damier French
- madame French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- dama Spanish, Castilian
- damajuana Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- δάμαρ Ancient Greek
- δόμος Ancient Greek
- δῶ Ancient Greek
- δῶμα Ancient Greek
- *dem- Proto-Indo-European
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- dama Portuguese
- dama Polish
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- दम् Sanskrit
- dame Middle English
- dame Danish
- *domъ Proto-Slavic
- dame Old French
- dama Catalan, Valencian
- dama Galician
- damă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- տուն Old Armenian
- damo Ido
- дама Bulgarian
- *dáma Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *domos Proto-Italic
- deem Scots
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- madanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- daime Bourguignon
- 𐬛𐬀𐬨 Avestan
- danme Picard