damoisele
Old French
noun
Definitions
- girl; young lady
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *domnicella, 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
- damsel English
- demoiselle English
- domina English
- *domnicella Latin
- domina Latin
- domna Latin
- damigella Italian
- dame French
- demoiselle French
- donzelle French
- mademoiselle French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- damisela Spanish, Castilian
- doncella Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- dameisele Middle English
- dame Old French
- donicela Galician
- d'mouaîselle Norman
- donzelle Norman
- donezỹa Old Portuguese
- donzela Old Portuguese
- donçela Old Occitan
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- daime Bourguignon
- daimoizâle Bourguignon
- danme Picard