u

khối (classifier)
cục (classifier)
幽 (CJK)
𢉾 (CJK)

From Proto-Vietic *ʔuː (“hump (of a zebu)”).

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laundress

I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle,
Thou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:


姉

From Old Japanese of unclear derivation:
* Probably originally a compound of 吾 (a, Eastern Old Japanese first-person pronoun) + の (no, possessive particle) + 兄 (ye → e, “eldest sibling”):
*: ⟨a no₂ ye⟩ → */anʉʲɨe/ → /ane/
This word is an apophonic form of 兄 (ani, “elder brother”).
* Several other theories have also been suggested.


嫠

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rɯ): phonetic 𠩺 () + semantic 女 (“woman”).


姨

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lil): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 夷 (OC *lil).

Han compound

二姨


孀

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sraŋ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 霜 (OC *sraŋ).
Zhang (2000) relates it to 喪 (OC *smaːŋ, “mourning; funeral”), 喪 (OC *smaːŋs, “to lose”) and 霜 (OC *sraŋ, “frost (which causes loss)”). However, Schuessler (2007) considers these three words etymologically unrelated.


姪

姪 (canonical)
mei (romanization)
mefi (romanization)
めひ (hiragana historical)

Early Middle Japanese
Early Modern Japanese
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Ryūnoshūge

From Old Japanese; attested in the Ryūnoshūge (738) as 売比 ⟨me₁ pi₁⟩.
* ⟨me₁ pi₁⟩ → /mefi/ → /mei/
The initial me- has been frequently associated with 女 (me, “female”).


妾

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (妾):
* → Japanese: 妾(しょう) (shō)
* → Korean: 첩(妾) (cheop)
* → Vietnamese: thiếp (妾)

/t͡sʰi̯e̞²⁴/

/t͡ɕʰi̯e̞²⁴/

/t͡sʰi̯e̞²⁴/

/t͡ɕʰi̯e̞²⁴/

Uncertain.
Possibly a pictogram (象形) of a woman with a headdress. Cognate to 女 with 辛 on top, though in the modern form the headdress has simplified to unrelated 立.
Alternatively, may be an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 辛 (“torture device”) + 女 (“woman”) – female criminal.
Cognate to 捷 (OC *zeb, “victory; booty”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Han compound

The first injunction in their agreement was, "Slay the unfilial; change not the son who has been appointed heir; exalt not a concubine to be the wife."

Chū mìng yuē: “Zhū bùxiào, wú yì shùzǐ, wú yǐ qiè wèi qī.”

初命曰：「誅不孝，無易樹子，無以妾為妻。」

初命曰：「诛不孝，无易树子，无以妾为妻。」


婦

desctree

→? Proto-Vietic: *-bəːʔ
Viet-Muong:
Muong: bợ, vợ
Middle Vietnamese: 𡞕 (ꞗợ), 𡢼 (ꞗợ)
Vietnamese: vợ

Characters in the same phonetic series (帚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Two possibilities:
* Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯʔ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 帚 (OC *pjuʔ), as supported by the latest Old Chinese reconstructions; or
* Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 女 (“woman”) + 帚 (“broom”) – a woman with a broom.
Compare Tibetan བག་མ (bag ma, “bride”) (Hill, 2019).

Han compound

夫婦

夫妇

You have your own wife, Prefect, Luofu has her own husband!

陌上桑 (日出東南隅行) "Ballad about Sunrise at the southeast corner", included in New Songs from the Jade Terrace (玉臺新詠) [circa 6th century]. Translated by Anne Birrell

使君自有婦，羅敷自有夫！

使君自有妇，罗敷自有夫！


妃

妃 (canonical)
妃 (canonical)
kisaki (romanization)
kisai (romanization)

Regina, æ . reina . qisàqi .

1632, Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, page 112:


mare

French language
Latin language
Occitan language
Old Catalan language
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Italic language
Spanish language

From Old Catalan mare, from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Occitan maire, French mère, Spanish madre.

mare subrogada


嬸

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljɯmʔ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 審 (OC *hljɯmʔ).
Monosyllabic fusion of 叔母 (MC syuwk muwX, “father's younger brother + wife”).

ltc-l

paternal aunt (wife of father's younger brother)


妻

From 端 (tsuma, “side, edge”), indicating the person who is at the side of someone: a spouse. Compare the English expression better half.
This term originally referred to either a male (husband) or female (wife) spouse. In modern usage, this term refers only to a female spouse.


局

a lady-in-waiting or gentlewoman who lives in such a room


妹

→ Khmer: មួយ (muəy, “you”) (used with people of Chinese ethnicity)

→ Thai: หมวย (mǔai, “younger sister”) (said by Chinese ethnicity)

/muːi̯²²⁻⁵⁵/

/muːi̯²²⁻³⁵/

/muːi̯²²⁻⁵⁵/

/muːi̯²²⁻³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯːds): semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 未 (OC *mɯds).
Probably Sino-Tibetan. Proposed etymologies:
* STEDT relates it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mi (“girl; female; feminine suffix”), whence Apatani nyimii (“girl; woman; female”), Proto-Loloish *C-mi² (“woman”), Proto-Karen *hmɨᴮ (“female; woman”).
* Schuessler (2007) compares it to Burmese မ (ma., “sister”) (whence အစ်မ (acma., “elder sister”), ညီမ (nyima., “younger sister”)), Miju ku-mai- (“woman”), Tibetan བུད་མེད (bud med, “woman”), and also Mizo hmei (“concubine”) (> Mizo hmei-chhia (“woman; wife”)), which STEDT relates to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maj (“widow, widower”) instead.


妹

⟨imo₁⟩ → */imʷo/ → /imo/
From Old Japanese 妹 (imo₁). First cited in the Kojiki of 712.
Speculatively, may be related to terms such as 女 (me₁, womi₁na, “woman”), 嫗 (omi₁na, “elderly woman”), and 母 (omo, “mother”), wherein the medial /-m-/ appears to signify woman, female. However, the difference in vowel values presents a difficulty.

(archaic, said from a male speaker) a close female companion

one's sister regardless of age difference

かりごもの思ひ乱れて我恋ふといも知るらめや人し告げずは

karigomo no omoimidarete ware kou to imo shirurame ya hito shi tsugezu wa

one's lover or sweetheart who is the subject of marriage or is already married

(archaic, said from a female speaker) a close female companion


妹

妹 (canonical)
imōto (romanization)
いもっ (alternative hiragana)
imo' (Rōmaji alternative hiragana)

Daijirin
Daijisen#Online_search_engines
The Tales of Ise

/imo ɸito/ → /imowito/ → */imowuto/ → /imoːto/
Originally a compound of 妹 (imo, “sister, close female companion”) + 人 (hito, “person”). First cited in The Tales of Ise of the early 900s.
This is an instance of ウ音便 (u onbin, “u sound shift”), found in terms with bilabial consonants (/m/, /b/, /w/) followed by i; commonly seen in terms such as 玄人 (kurōto, “professional”), 素人 (shirōto, “amateur”), or possibly, 相撲 (sumō, “sumo”).


妹

Japanese: 妹 (imo)

Speculatively, may be related to terms such as 女 (me₁, womi₁na, “woman”), 嫗 (omi₁na, “elderly woman”), and 母 (omo₁, “mother”), wherein the medial /-m-/ appears to signify woman, female. However, the difference in vowel values presents a difficulty.

, text here
風高邊者雖吹為妹袖左倍所沾而苅流玉藻焉
kaze takaku pe₁ ni pa pukedo₂mo imo ga tame₂ so₁de sape₂ nurete kareru tamamo so₂

said from a female speaker:
a close female companion


娘

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (娘):
* → Japanese: 嬢(にょう) (nyō); 嬢(じょう) (jō); 嬢(にゃん) (nyan)
* → Korean: 낭(娘) (nang)
* → Vietnamese: nương (娘)

desc

→ Khmer: នាង (niəng, “young woman; girl”)

→ Lao: ນາງ (nāng, “woman; girl; lady; Mrs.”)

→ Thai: นาง (naang, “woman; wife; female lover”)

→ Vietnamese: nàng (“lady; young woman; she”)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *naŋ): semantic 女 + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ).
Not attested in pre-Tang texts. It may ultimately have been a fusion of 女郎 (MC nrjoX lang, “lady”) (Coblin, 1994).
Alternatively, from 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas, “woman”) with an attached suffix *-ŋ also found in 卬 (OC *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ, “I for my part”) as against 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”) (Sagart, 1999: 134). However, evidence for this suffix is sparse; Sagart only adduces these two pairs of words.
As yet another suggestion, it may be a loan from Proto-Turkic *ana ~ *eńe (“mother”); compare Turkish ana and Uyghur ئانا (ana) (Vovin and McCraw, 2011).

Han compound

(～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 娘 (MC nrjang)


娘

1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “テイク・オフ (Teiku Ofu, “Take Off”)”, in ショートプログラム (漫(まん)画(が)) (Shōto Puroguramu (manga), “Short Program (manga)”), 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 107:

自分で自分の行動に条件をつけちゃうんだよ、この娘—— 例えば、毎年初雪が降るまでモチは食わないとか、霊柩車が通るまで道を渡らないとか、ネコがあくびするまでコタツを出ないとか。

Jibun de jibun no kōdō ni jōken o tsukechaun da yo, kono ko—— Tatoeba, maitoshi hatsuyuki ga furu made mochi wa kuwanai toka, reikyūsha ga tōru made michi o wataranai toka, neko ga akubisuru made kotatsu o denai toka.

This girl, I’m telling you, she sets terms for every of her own actions— Like, not eating mochi until the first snowfall of each year, not crossing the street until the hearse passes by, or not leaving the kotatsu until her cat yawns.


女

女 (canonical)
onna (romanization)
wonna (romanization)
をんな (hiragana historical)

女の足駄にて造れる笛には秋の鹿寄る

onna no ashida ni te tsukureru fue ni wa aki no shika yoru

女の髪の毛には大象も繫がる

onna no kami no ke ni wa taizō mo tsunagaru

⟨womi₁na⟩ → */womʲina/ → /womʉna/ → /wonːa/ → /onːa/
Shift from Old Japanese womina → omina. See the 女 (omina) entry for further details.
Now one of the standard Japanese words for "a woman".

人の女に手を出すな！

Don't you fuckin' dare touch someone else's girl!


女

⟨me₁⟩ → */mʲe/ → /me/
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *mia.
Appears to be distinct from 目 (⟨me₂⟩ → me, “eye”).

女木

female tree; lower or receiving piece of wood in a join

女君: polite term for another person's wife

郎女: an ancient term of endearment for referring to a woman


懷

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡruːl) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 褱 (OC *ɡruːl, *ɡruːl, “to miss; bosom”). The original meaning is "to miss, to long for". Originally written 褱, see there for more. Hence, the phonetic component also adds part of the original meaning.


梓

梓 (canonical)
Azusa (romanization)
Adusa (romanization)
あづさ (hiragana historical)

/adusa/ → /ad͡zusa/ → /azusa/
From Old Japanese.


stepmother

From Middle English stepmoder, from Old English stēopmōdor, from Proto-Germanic *steupamōdēr (“stepmother”), corresponding to step- + mother. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifmuur (“stepmother”), Dutch stiefmoeder (“stepmother”), German Low German Steevmoder (“stepmother”), German Stiefmutter (“stepmother”), Danish stedmor (“stepmother”), Swedish styvmor (“stepmother”), Icelandic stjúpmóðir (“stepmother”). Compare also West Frisian styfmem (“stepmother”).

cog

Coordinate term: stepfather

The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.

njerkë

wife of one's biological father, not one's biological mother


梅

Daijisen
Heian period
Kyūjitai
Shinjitai
Tōkyō
ja:松村明
Ōsaka

⟨me₂⟩ → */mːəɨ/ → *⟨mume₂⟩ → ⟨ume₂⟩ → */uməɨ/ → /ume/
From Old Japanese.
Probably ultimately from Middle Chinese 梅 (MC mwoj), with the borrowed me reading gaining a pronounced kind of initial m- sound, perhaps realized as *mme. The phonetic spelling was often rendered as むめ (*mme, mume) from the Heian period, with *mme/mume and ume apparently existing in free variation. The reading eventually settled on うめ (ume). Compare the similar pattern of phonetic shift for 馬 (ma → *mma → muma → uma, “horse”), likely from Middle Chinese 馬 (MC maeX).


labour

en-noun

labour (countable and uncountable, plural labours)

term-label

(British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling, New Zealand spelling)

From Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.

(medicine, obstetrics) The act of a mother giving birth.


rein

head

rein f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

From Old Irish rígan (“queen”), from Proto-Celtic *rīganī. Cognate to Irish ríon, Scottish Gaelic rìghinn, rìbhinn, Welsh rhiain.


dame

60th British Academy Film Awards
Judi Dench
Order of the British Empire

From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.

der

Dame Edith Sitwell

The cover of the modern cd, issued by EMI Classics with Dame Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli in 1965, carries a portrait of Dame Janet wearing a long coral necklace in reference to the song 'Where the Corals lie' to words by Richard Garnett (1835–1906).

2009, Marcia Pointon, “Something Rich and Strange”, in Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Stories Touching Stones), page 144:

(British) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.


dame

English: dame; dam

Scots: dame, deem; dam

From Old French dame, from Latin domina.

lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
abbess (governor of a nunnery)

(rare) A female anchorite (with servants)

lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
A female anchorite (with servants)


moo

You silly moo! What did you do that for?

'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.


archduchess

From French archiduchesse, feminine of archiduc, corresponding to archduke + -ess or arch- + duchess.

If that weren’t enough, in 1993 she married Karl von Habsburg, otherwise known as Archduke Karl of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and the couple set up home in Salzburg, producing two archduchesses and an archduke.

2007 February 25, William Shaw, “We Are Not a Muse”, in New York Times:

A daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary

សម្ដេចព្រះបរមរាជធីតាធិរាជ

sɑmdach preah bɑrom riech tʰiidaa tʰi’ riech


雌

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰe): phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 隹.

Han compound

Among birds, males are yang and females are yin; ….

Qí zài niǎo zé xióng wèi yáng cí wéi yīn;.......

其在鳥則雄為陽雌為陰；……。

其在鸟则雄为阳雌为阴；……。

(formal) female (describing animals and plants)


雌

雌 (canonical)
雌 (canonical)
mesu (romanization)

First cited to 1867.
The initial me- is the same me component seen in many terms referring to senses of "female". The final -su portion is of uncertain derivation.
The kanji as used originally in Chinese and in older Japanese with the on'yomi of shi referred more specifically to female birds. If the term mesu is much older than the 1800s, the final -su portion may be the ancient morpheme that appears in various names for types of bird, such as 烏 (karasu, “crow”) or 鶯 (uguisu, “bush warbler”).

雌黒豹紋

the Argynnis sagana, a type of butterfly


雌

Appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE.
From Old Japanese 女 (me, “woman”). This spelling is used exclusively for non-human contexts.


雌

First cited to 1839.
/me no/ → /men/
From fusion of 雌 (me, “female plant or animal”) + の (no, “possessive particle”).


雌

Japanese: 雌 (め, me)


麜

female Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus)


meri

From English Mary. Attested in St. Johnston (1927:72) in reference to Solomon Islands laborers.


French letter

From French + letter. Compare earlier French pox, French-sick (“syphilis”), or later French safe, French tickler (“condom”), or French kiss. Attested from the 19th century.

‘So you’re fifteen – and you know the function of a “French letter”? You are familiar with its use?’
‘I know what it’s for, sir, yes.’

1984, Leslie Thomas, In my Wildest Dreams, page 289:

“I suppose it’s too much to hope that you have a question about gonorrhea. Those questions are so much easier to answer.”[…]
“I was going to ask about what you said earlier. That you’d... that you’d... not used a French letter in eighteen months.”

2012, Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter, page 80:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, euphemistic) A condom.


maternal death

en-noun

maternal death (countable and uncountable, plural maternal deaths)

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The death of a woman that occurs directly related to the procreative process; obstetric death.


maire

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin māter, matrem (“mother”).


li

lihe (first-person singular)
lihkai (first-person plural)
lihn (second-person singular)
lihken (plural second-person)
liho (singular third-person)
lihk (plural third-person)
lihmen (indefinite singular)
lihpwi (indefinite plural)
liwa (definite singular)
liwa (definite plural)


dam

Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.

More dear […] than younglings to their dam.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:

The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon)[…].

The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 112:

Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.


dam

From Proto-Oceanic *saman (“outrigger”), from Proto-Austronesian *saʀman (“outrigger”)


condom

→ Afar: kondom

→ Cantonese: condom, dom

→ Cebuano: kondom

→ Czech: kondom

desctree

→? Danish: kondom
→ Greenlandic: kondomi

→ Dutch: condoom
Indonesian: kondom

→ Finnish: kondomi

→ French: condom

→ German: Kondom

→ Italian: condom

→ Japanese: コンドーム (kondōmu)

→ Korean: 콘돔 (kondom)

→ Macedonian: кондо́м (kondóm)

→ Malay: kondom

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kondom

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kondom

→ Polish: kondom

desc

→ Russian: кондо́м (kondóm), гондо́н (gondón)

→ Serbo-Croatian: kondom

→ Swahili: kondomu

→ Tagalog: kondom

→ Tok Pisin: kondom

→? Turkish: kondom

Unknown. Many speculations exist. Possibly derived from Italian guantone, from guanto (“a glove”).

buy a pack of condoms

flavoured condom

ribbed condoms

However, substantial proportions of participants preferred the nonlatex condom or reported that they would recommend its use to others.

2009, Albert Altchek, Liane Deligdisch, Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Gynecology:

We're in the small percentage of cases in which condoms are ineffective. Looks as if you have some sort of supersperm. You must be very proud.

2015, Beth Burgoon, About That Night, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Superromance, →ISBN, page 123:

I remember that one time I went to the kiosk next door to buy condoms, it was raining, she appeared.

2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:

A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STIs.

(broadly) A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn as a barrier between an erect penis and the inner surface of the vagina, anus, or mouth during sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy or the spread of STIs.


condom

Unadapted borrowing from English condom.


kana

Borrowed from Malay kena (“to contact; to have to do, to need to do; to be precise; deceived”), from Old Malay knā, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”). Compare Ilocano kenna.


accoucheuse

Borrowed from French accoucheuse, female of accoucheur.


accouchement

en-noun

accouchement (countable and uncountable, plural accouchements)

Borrowed from French accouchement, from French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad- + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.

der

Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.

The prevalence of the reports contradictory to this supposed legitimacy, rendered it necessary to be more minute, than might in common cases have been requisite, in proving the precise time and place of Lady Jane Douglas's alledged accouchement […]

1763 June, “An account of the law-suit concerning the succession to the late Duke of Douglas, continued”, in The Scots Magazine, volume 25, page 308:

a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 156:

A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.

1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153:


nainen

nainen (nominative singular)
naiset (nominative plural)
nainen (accusative nominative singular)
naiset (accusative nominative plural)
naisen (accusative genitive singular)
naiset (accusative genitive plural)
naisen (genitive singular)
naisten (genitive plural)
naisien (genitive plural)
naista (partitive singular)
naisia (partitive plural)
naisessa (inessive singular)
naisissa (inessive plural)
naisesta (elative singular)
naisista (elative plural)
naiseen (illative singular)
naisiin (illative plural)
naisella (adessive singular)
naisilla (adessive plural)
naiselta (ablative singular)
naisilta (ablative plural)
naiselle (allative singular)
naisille (allative plural)
naisena (essive singular)
naisina (essive plural)
naiseksi (singular translative)
naisiksi (plural translative)
naisetta (abessive singular)
naisitta (abessive plural)
naisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
naiseni (nominative singular)
naiseni (nominative plural)
naiseni (accusative nominative singular)
naiseni (accusative nominative plural)
naiseni (accusative genitive singular)
naiseni (accusative genitive plural)
naiseni (genitive singular)
naisteni (genitive plural)
naisieni (genitive plural)
naistani (partitive singular)
naisiani (partitive plural)
naisessani (inessive singular)
naisissani (inessive plural)
naisestani (elative singular)
naisistani (elative plural)
naiseeni (illative singular)
naisiini (illative plural)
naisellani (adessive singular)
naisillani (adessive plural)
naiseltani (ablative singular)
naisiltani (ablative plural)
naiselleni (allative singular)
naisilleni (allative plural)
naisenani (essive singular)
naisinani (essive plural)
naisekseni (singular translative)
naisikseni (plural translative)
naisettani (abessive singular)
naisittani (abessive plural)
naisineni (comitative plural)
naisesi (nominative singular)
naisesi (nominative plural)
naisesi (accusative nominative singular)
naisesi (accusative nominative plural)
naisesi (accusative genitive singular)
naisesi (accusative genitive plural)
naisesi (genitive singular)
naistesi (genitive plural)
naisiesi (genitive plural)
naistasi (partitive singular)
naisiasi (partitive plural)
naisessasi (inessive singular)
naisissasi (inessive plural)
naisestasi (elative singular)
naisistasi (elative plural)
naiseesi (illative singular)
naisiisi (illative plural)
naisellasi (adessive singular)
naisillasi (adessive plural)
naiseltasi (ablative singular)
naisiltasi (ablative plural)
naisellesi (allative singular)
naisillesi (allative plural)
naisenasi (essive singular)
naisinasi (essive plural)
naiseksesi (singular translative)
naisiksesi (plural translative)
naisettasi (abessive singular)
naisittasi (abessive plural)
naisinesi (comitative plural)
naisemme (nominative singular)
naisemme (nominative plural)
naisemme (accusative nominative singular)
naisemme (accusative nominative plural)
naisemme (accusative genitive singular)
naisemme (accusative genitive plural)
naisemme (genitive singular)
naistemme (genitive plural)
naisiemme (genitive plural)
naistamme (partitive singular)
naisiamme (partitive plural)
naisessamme (inessive singular)
naisissamme (inessive plural)
naisestamme (elative singular)
naisistamme (elative plural)
naiseemme (illative singular)
naisiimme (illative plural)
naisellamme (adessive singular)
naisillamme (adessive plural)
naiseltamme (ablative singular)
naisiltamme (ablative plural)
naisellemme (allative singular)
naisillemme (allative plural)
naisenamme (essive singular)
naisinamme (essive plural)
naiseksemme (singular translative)
naisiksemme (plural translative)
naisettamme (abessive singular)
naisittamme (abessive plural)
naisinemme (comitative plural)
naisenne (nominative singular)
naisenne (nominative plural)
naisenne (accusative nominative singular)
naisenne (accusative nominative plural)
naisenne (accusative genitive singular)
naisenne (accusative genitive plural)
naisenne (genitive singular)
naistenne (genitive plural)
naisienne (genitive plural)
naistanne (partitive singular)
naisianne (partitive plural)
naisessanne (inessive singular)
naisissanne (inessive plural)
naisestanne (elative singular)
naisistanne (elative plural)
naiseenne (illative singular)
naisiinne (illative plural)
naisellanne (adessive singular)
naisillanne (adessive plural)
naiseltanne (ablative singular)
naisiltanne (ablative plural)
naisellenne (allative singular)
naisillenne (allative plural)
naisenanne (essive singular)
naisinanne (essive plural)
naiseksenne (singular translative)
naisiksenne (plural translative)
naisettanne (abessive singular)
naisittanne (abessive plural)
naisinenne (comitative plural)
naisensa (nominative singular)
naisensa (nominative plural)
naisensa (accusative nominative singular)
naisensa (accusative nominative plural)
naisensa (accusative genitive singular)
naisensa (accusative genitive plural)
naisensa (genitive singular)
naistensa (genitive plural)
naisiensa (genitive plural)
naistaan (partitive singular)
naistansa (partitive singular)
naisiaan (partitive plural)
naisiansa (partitive plural)
naisessaan (inessive singular)
naisessansa (inessive singular)
naisissaan (inessive plural)
naisissansa (inessive plural)
naisestaan (elative singular)
naisestansa (elative singular)
naisistaan (elative plural)
naisistansa (elative plural)
naiseensa (illative singular)
naisiinsa (illative plural)
naisellaan (adessive singular)
naisellansa (adessive singular)
naisillaan (adessive plural)
naisillansa (adessive plural)
naiseltaan (ablative singular)
naiseltansa (ablative singular)
naisiltaan (ablative plural)
naisiltansa (ablative plural)
naiselleen (allative singular)
naisellensa (allative singular)
naisilleen (allative plural)
naisillensa (allative plural)
naisenaan (essive singular)
naisenansa (essive singular)
naisinaan (essive plural)
naisinansa (essive plural)
naisekseen (singular translative)
naiseksensa (singular translative)
naisikseen (plural translative)
naisiksensa (plural translative)
naisettaan (abessive singular)
naisettansa (abessive singular)
naisittaan (abessive plural)
naisittansa (abessive plural)
naisineen (comitative plural)
naisinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *nainën, derived from the same root as naida; nai- + -nen.

hyvät naiset ja herrat


kinswoman

From Middle English kinswoman; equivalent to kin + -s- + -woman.

Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […]

1822, Alain René Le Sage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:


wan

Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.

Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.

1993, Elaine Crowley, The Ways Of Women, London: Orion, →ISBN:

Growing up in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s, I remember all the hard men were sinewy, scrawny lads, hence the local description ‘more meat on a seagull’. The reason was simple: they were undernourished. [...] The young wans, despite a couple of babies, were more or less the same, pinched, flat-chested and drawn.

2005, David McWilliams, The Pope’s Children: Ireland’s New Elite, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN; republished as The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2008, →ISBN, page 4:

He comes streaming out from under the stage, this time a feckin show-stopper, almost literally, because there’s eighty different acrobats above him, [...] for this mad New Year’s show that has no story at all, other than this wan in silky robes who goes out with this fella in silky robes, and they’re from different enemy tribes of lads and wans in silky robes, and when they find out, they have this huge, aerial, acrobatic donnybrook that ends when everyone wraps their silk around each other up in the air, and then lets it all fall down to the ground, where the audience are, to show them how we're all part of one big silky family, and not to be fighting in the future.

2015, Kevin Maher, “A Yuletide Bender”, in Last Night on Earth, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:


curse

Sranan Tongo: kosi

From Middle English curse, kors, cors, curs, from Old English cors, curs (“curse”), of unknown origin.

unk

unknown

The common curſe of mankinde, Folly and Ignorance[…]

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

نِقْمَة

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.

2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

(slang, dated, derogatory, usually with "the") A woman's menses.


curse

en-verb

curse (third-person singular simple present curses, present participle cursing, simple past and past participle cursed or (archaic) curst)

curses (present singular third-person)
cursing (participle present)
cursed (participle past)
cursed (past)
curst (archaic participle past)
curst (archaic past)

Sranan Tongo: kosi

From Middle English cursen, corsen, coursen, from Old English corsian, cursian (“to curse”), from the noun (see above).

better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness

Thou ſhalt not[…]curſe the ruler of thy people.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 22:28, column 1:

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

لَعَنَ

to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon

On Impious Realms, and barb’rous Kings, impoſe / Thy Plagues, and curſe 'em with ſuch Sons as thoſe.

1712 May, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “The First Book of Statius his Thebais”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 29:

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.


businesswoman

→ French: businesswoman

→ Polish: bizneswoman

desc

бизнесву́мен

→ Russian: бизнесву́мен (biznesvúmen)


businesswoman

Unadapted borrowing from English businesswoman.

ubor

(business) Alternative spelling of bizneswoman


songstress

From songster + -ess. Compare West Frisian sjongeres (“songstress”), Dutch zangeres (“songstress”).


actress

→ Cebuano: aktres

→ Tagalog: aktres

From actor + -ess. Probably formed independently of Middle French actrice.

A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand

1972, Neil Young (lyrics and music), “A Man Needs a Maid”, in Harvest:

"I'm an actress -- actor, as we have to say these days."

2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 88:

Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.

2011 January 27, “Not going quietly”, in The Economist:

A female who performs on the stage or in films.

My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.

1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 290:

(now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).


Latina

From Spanish latina; see Latino for more.

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great-granddaughter

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stepdaughter

From Middle English stepdoughter, stepdoghter, steopdohter, from Old English stēopdohtor (“stepdaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *steupaduhtēr (“stepdaughter”), equivalent to step- + daughter.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifdochter (“stepdaughter”), West Frisian styfdochter (“stepdaughter”), Dutch stiefdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Low German Steevdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Stieftochter (“stepdaughter”), Danish steddatter (“stepdaughter”), Swedish styvdotter (“stepdaughter”), Icelandic stjúpdóttir (“stepdaughter”).

cog

The daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.

аԥҳаԥса

daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself


lesbian

→ Hindi: लेस्बियन (lesbiyan)

desc

→ Urdu: لسبین

→ Urdu: لسبین

From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.

There was one recently that determined on an island off California 14 percent of the female sea gulls were lesbians (and we know that kind of thing would never go among Nantucket sea gulls).

1979, Terry Hekker, Ever Since Adam and Eve, New York: Morrow:

The only between this pair and others in the community is that they are among the 8 to 14 percent of the residents that are lesbians. After building their nest, the pair, two female western gulls, customarily produce twice as many eggs […]

2014, George H Harrison, Birds Do It, Too: The Amazing Sex Life of Birds, Willow Creek Press, →ISBN:

(uncommon) A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.


half sister

From Middle English halfesister, half-suster, half sister, equivalent to half- + sister. Compare Dutch halfzus, halfzuster (“half-sister”), German Halbschwester (“half-sister”), Swedish halvsyster (“half-sister”), Icelandic hálfsystir (“half-sister”).

A female sibling sharing a single parent.

同父異母

daughter of the same father but a different mother

uterina

daughter of the same mother but a different father


priestess

From priest + -ess. Compare Middle English preesteresse (“priestess”).

cog

The “extenuating circumstances” set forth by the Rev. Mr. Higgins certainly bring home not only the nature of Bishop Hall's problem but its cause; however, the problems of parish life under a deaconess are insignificant in comparison with the very grave issues raised by the ordination of a priestess.

1944 November 19, “Letters”, in The Living Church, volume 109, number 21, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Morehouse-Gorham Co., page 2:

1976 July 10, Aubrey Wice, “Anglican, Greek Orthodox Doctrines at Odds: Women Priests Create Rift Between Churches”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, →ISSN, page 36:

He has cleverly figured out that the deluded pro-priestess faction of the church already has its necessary two-thirds majority and that the time to act is now.

1986 June 25, John Fraser, “Dust-up Over Women Will Enliven Anglican Synod”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, →ISSN, page A7:

THE Church of England is considering taking legal action against a recalcitrant opponent of women priests in Hull who refuses to take down a church sign which says: "This Anglican parish has no part in the apostasy of priestesses."

1996 July 15, Madeleine Bunting, “Priest Defends 'Sexist' Sign”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, page 6:

2003 December, Larry A. Carstens, “The Non Serviam of the Episcopal Church: Unsex Me!”, in New Oxford Review, volume 70, number 11, →ISSN, pages 33–34:

(religious slur, uncommon) A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.


stepsister

The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.


baba

As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members:
* father: Albanian, Arabic, Western Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Greek, Marathi, Mingrelian, Nepali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba, Shona, Zulu
* grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as Bulgarian, Russian, Czech and Polish), Romanian, Yiddish, Japanese
* grandfather: Azerbaijani, Zulu (father, grandfather)
* baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala, Hungarian
These terms often continue to be used by English speakers whose families came from one of these cultures. In some cases, they may become more widely used in localities that have been heavily influenced by an immigrant community. Some senses were extensions of one of these family terms in the original languages ("old woman" from "grandmother", "holy man" from "father"). The "cake" sense comes through French, from Polish baba (“old woman”). The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian بابا (bābā, “father”) (from Old Persian pāpa; as opposed to the Arabic words أَبُو (ʔabū) and أَب (ʔab); see also Papak), and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word pope, having the same Indo-European origin. The Chinese word "baba", meaning father comes from 爸爸.

A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.

Only two women, typical "babas" (peasant women) in the house from which I got my quilt and bedcloth, could be coaxed to pose;

1914, Russell Sage Foundation, Wage-earning Pittsburgh:

Laura hadn't known that anyone's mother could look like that, like the babas you sometimes saw downtown, bandaged in kerchiefs and aprons, sitting toothless in stockinged feet on small verandahs, peeling potatoes or beets or just shaking their heads and grimacing.

1986, Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Paris-Napoli Express:

According to some, new volunteers are becoming more difficult to recruit and there are dark suggestions that 'money is being made on the backs of the babas', the dedicated, but ageing ladies who still spend countless hours of their time preparing foodstuffs for the occasion.

2003, Colin Michael Hall, Liz Sharples, editors, Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets:

An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.

While I was in Port Alberni, three babas came to Canada to raise money ...

1995, Hugh J.M. Johnston, Tara Singh Bains, The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh:

But according to Ray, 'all the babas my uncle knew were genuine. None of them was exposed. They were fairly humble people, not show-offs like the Maharishi ...

2004, Andrew Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker:

Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises.

2006, Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects Of The Sultan: Culture And Daily Life In The Ottoman Empire:

(Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.


baba

baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babě (dative singular)
babám (dative plural)
babu (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)
babě (locative singular)
babách (locative plural)
babou (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)


baba

babeņa (diminutive)
baba (nominative singular)
babys (nominative plural)
babas (dialectal nominative plural)
babys (genitive singular)
babas (dialectal genitive singular)
babu (genitive plural)
babai (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babu (accusative singular)
babys (accusative plural)
babas (accusative dialectal plural)
babu (instrumental singular)
babom (instrumental plural)
babā (locative singular)
babuos (locative plural)
baba (singular vocative)
bab (singular vocative)
babys (plural vocative)
babas (dialectal plural vocative)

Borrowed from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *baba. Doublet of buoba.


baba

babka (diminutive)
baba (nominative singular)
babje (dual nominative)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
babowu (dual genitive)
babow (genitive plural)
babje (dative singular)
baboma (dative dual)
babam (dative plural)
babu (accusative singular)
babje (accusative dual)
baby (accusative plural)
babu (instrumental singular)
baboma (dual instrumental)
babami (instrumental plural)
babje (locative singular)
baboma (dual locative)
babach (locative plural)


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię

(colloquial, somewhat derogatory) woman, crone, hag (female person)

(colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) wife, girlfriend (female romantic partner)

(Middle Polish) female mourner, griever (woman who cries over someone's death at a funeral)


baba

baba (nominative singular)
babowie (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
babów (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
babów (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
babowie (plural vocative)

(Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) baba (holy man, a spiritual leader)


baba

bȁba (canonical feminine)
ба̏ба (Cyrillic)
bȁba (nominative singular)
babe (nominative plural)
babe (genitive singular)
bȃbā (genitive plural)
babi (dative singular)
babama (dative plural)
babu (accusative singular)
babe (accusative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
babe (plural vocative)
babi (locative singular)
babama (locative plural)
babom (instrumental singular)
babama (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba. First attested in the 15th century.


baba

babka (diminutive)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bŏb (genitive plural)
babōw (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babōm (dative plural)
babã (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babōm (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babōma (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

wife; girlfriend (female romantic partner)

female matchmaker (woman who sets up couples)

(derogatory) pansy, big girl's blouse (male of weak or cowardly character)


baba

nominative
baba (singular)
baby (plural)
genitive
baby (singular)
báb (plural)
dative
babe (singular)
babám (plural)
accusative
babu (singular)
locative
babách (plural)
instrumental
babou (singular)
babami (plural)


baba

please help by adding the tonal marks.
bába (nominative singular)
bábi (dual nominative)
bábe (nominative plural)
bábe (genitive singular)
báb (dual genitive)
báb (genitive plural)
bábi (dative singular)
bábama (dative dual)
bábam (dative plural)
bábo (accusative singular)
bábi (accusative dual)
bábe (accusative plural)
bábi (locative singular)
bábah (dual locative)
bábah (locative plural)
bábo (instrumental singular)
bábama (dual instrumental)
bábami (instrumental plural)


baba

babka (diminutive)
baba (nominative singular)
babje (dual nominative)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
babow (dual genitive)
babow (genitive plural)
babje (dative singular)
babomaj (dative dual)
babam (dative plural)
babu (accusative singular)
babje (accusative dual)
baby (accusative plural)
babu (instrumental singular)
babomaj (dual instrumental)
babami (instrumental plural)
babje (locative singular)
babomaj (dual locative)
babach (locative plural)
baba (singular vocative)
babje (dual vocative)
baby (plural vocative)


minor

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

byvak

subject of secondary undergraduate study

He... to þe menours ordre went

1447, Osbern Bokenham, Legendys of Hooly Wummen, l. 10520:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.


witch

The noun is from Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer, warlock”), deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”). Possibly related to wicked; see that entry for more.
The verb is from the noun.

cog

(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.


witch

From Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female),sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer”) m., deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”).

inh

witch; A person, chiefly a woman, skilled in sorcery.


carry

en-verb

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

carries (present singular third-person)
carrying (participle present)
carried (participle past)
carried (past)

borrow

the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction

→ Cantonese: carry

From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

tīhei

on the back but held in place with hands

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

to carry a life insurance

A merchant is carrying a large stock. A farm carries a mortgage. A broker carries stock for a customer.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

Nobody looked like they were carrying, other than those who had knives strapped to their belts, although with Alaska's new concealed-carry permit, available to anyone who trundled themselves down to the local police station to take the class, someone in this crowd could have a rocket launcher stuffed into their boot and she'd never know it.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 72:

(intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.


uxor

la-noun

uxor f (genitive uxōris); third declension

uxōris (genitive)
uxor (nominative singular)
uxōrēs (nominative plural)
uxōris (genitive singular)
uxōrum (genitive plural)
uxōrī (dative singular)
uxōribus (dative plural)
uxōrem (accusative singular)
uxōrēs (accusative plural)
uxōre (ablative singular)
uxōribus (ablative plural)
uxor (singular vocative)
uxōrēs (plural vocative)

desctree

Old French: oissor, oissour, uissor, usor
Middle French: oisour (early)

⇒ Aromanian: ãnsor

⇒ Romanian: însura

→ Interlingua: uxor

desc

→⇒ English: uxoricide, uxorious, uxorial

From Proto-Italic *uksōr which is of unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Armenian ամուսին (amusin). Alternatively a cognate to Latvian uõsis (“father-in-law”), Lithuanian uošvė (“mother-in-law”) and Ossetian ус (us, “woman”).


mater

From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mata and mother. Ancestor of matrix.

Coordinate term: pater

Their maters are all pals of my mater’s, and I don’t want to get them into trouble for aiding and abetting my little show, if you understand what I mean.

1919 June 14, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 50, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, chapter XX, page 57, column 1:

And then there’s the mater! Poor old mater! She goes about on tiptoe; she’s always watching me and pretending she’s not watching me; I believe she would like to have everything padded with feather beds. All the while she has been wanting me to do the goody book thing, get down on my knees and put my head in her lap and blub.

1923, Warwick Deeping, “John Stretton”, in The Secret Sanctuary (The Scherz Phoenix Books), Berne: Alfred Scherz Publishers, published 1945, →OCLC, page 32:

Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later

1985, Mick Hucknall, Neil Moss (lyrics and music), “Holding Back the Years”, in Picture Book, performed by Simply Red:

“Mater, you look well.” / “I am well. And you,” she said in that dryly prosaic deep voice of hers, “look healed.”

1997, Colleen McCullough, Caesar’s Women, page 17:

(British, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.


mater

la-noun

māter f (genitive mātris); third declension

māter (canonical feminine)
mātris (genitive)
māter (nominative singular)
mātrēs (nominative plural)
mātris (genitive singular)
mātrum (genitive plural)
mātrī (dative singular)
mātribus (dative plural)
mātrem (accusative singular)
mātrēs (accusative plural)
mātre (ablative singular)
mātribus (ablative plural)
māter (singular vocative)
mātrēs (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Italian: madre

Sicilian: matri

North Italian:

Friulian: mari

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: mare, mèr, mèdar, madra

Ligurian: moæ, mâre, mâje

Lombard: mader, madar, madra

Piedmontese: mare, mari, mèri

Istriot: mare

Ladin: mère

Venetan: mare

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: mâre

desctree

Old French: mere, medre
Bourguignon: meire
Middle French: mere
French: mère
Haitian Creole: mè
Norman: mère, méthe
Walloon: mere

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: mare

Gascon: mair

Occitan: maire

Limousin: mair

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: mai

Old Leonese:

Asturian: madre, ma

Extremaduran: mairi

Leonese: mai

Mirandese: mai, madre

Old Galician-Portuguese: madre
Galician: madre
Portuguese: madre

Fala: mairi

Old Galician-Portuguese: mãy
Fala: má
Galician: mai, nai
Portuguese: mãe (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: madre

Ladino:

Hebrew script: מאדרי

Latin script: madre

Spanish: madre
→ Tagalog: madre

Borrowings:

→ English: mater

→ Ido: matro
→ Esperanto: matro

→ Interlingua: matre

→ Middle English: matere

English: mater

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).

Nē, māter; suam.


Ärztin

de-noun

Ärztin f (genitive Ärztin, plural Ärztinnen, masculine Arzt)

Ärztin (genitive)
Ärztinnen (plural)
Arzt (masculine)
Ärztin (nominative singular)
Ärztinnen (definite nominative plural)
Ärztin (genitive singular)
Ärztinnen (definite genitive plural)
Ärztin (dative singular)
Ärztinnen (dative definite plural)
Ärztin (accusative singular)
Ärztinnen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German arzātīn, arzātinne. Equivalent to Arzt + -in, with umlaut.


turn

en-verb

turn (third-person singular simple present turns, present participle turning, simple past and past participle turned or (obsolete) turnt)

turns (present singular third-person)
turning (participle present)
turned (participle past)
turned (past)
turnt (obsolete participle past)
turnt (obsolete past)
turn (infinitive)

From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, wind”), whence English throw. Displaced native Middle English wenden from Old English wendan (see wend), and Middle English trenden from Old English trendan (see trend), among several other terms.

lyödä kierre

in cricket, make the ball move sideways when it bounces

kiertää

of a cricket ball, move sideways when it bounces

-ul

e.g. “turn yellow”: sárga → sárgul, “turn brown”: barna → barnul

(obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

kääntää

obstetrics: bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery


virgo

la-noun

virgō f (genitive virginis); third declension

virgō (canonical feminine)
virginis (genitive)
virgō (nominative singular)
virginēs (nominative plural)
virginis (genitive singular)
virginum (genitive plural)
virginī (dative singular)
virginibus (dative plural)
virginem (accusative singular)
virginēs (accusative plural)
virgine (ablative singular)
virginibus (ablative plural)
virgō (singular vocative)
virginēs (plural vocative)

Albanian: virgjër

Aromanian: virghirã

Asturian: virxe

Catalan: verge

English: virgin

Piedmontese: verzo, vergio

Ligurian: verzo

French: vierge

Friulian: virgin

Galician: virxe

Italian: vergine

Lithuanian: mergelė (calque)

Occitan: verge

Papiamentu: vírgen

Portuguese: virgem

Romanian: virgin, vergură

Sicilian: vìrgini

Spanish: virgen, virgo

Walloon: viêdge

Uncertain; one hypothesis is that it is related to virga (“young shoot”).

a virgin; someone (female) who has never experienced sexual intercourse

(by extension, Ecclesiastical Latin, of the Church Fathers) a male virgin


virgo

[…] cum Decimus quidam Verginius virginem filiam propter unius ex illis X viris intemperiem in foro sua manu interemisset

54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37.63

[…] that a certain Decimus Virginius was obliged, on account of the libidinous violence of one of these decemvirs, to stab his virgin daughter in the midst of the forum


царица

ru-noun+

цари́ца • (caríca) f anim (genitive цари́цы, nominative plural цари́цы, genitive plural цари́ц, masculine царь)

цари́ца (canonical)
caríca (romanization)
цари́цы (genitive)
цари́цы (nominative plural)
цари́ц (genitive plural)
царь (masculine)
цари́ца (nominative singular)
цари́цы (nominative plural)
цари́цы (genitive singular)
цари́ц (genitive plural)
цари́це (dative singular)
цари́цам (dative plural)
цари́цу (accusative singular)
цари́ц (accusative plural)
цари́цей (instrumental singular)
цари́цею (instrumental singular)
цари́цами (instrumental plural)
цари́це (prepositional singular)
цари́цах (plural prepositional)
цари́ца (dated nominative singular)
цари́цы (dated nominative plural)
цари́цы (dated genitive singular)
цари́цъ (dated genitive plural)
цари́цѣ (dated dative singular)
цари́цамъ (dated dative plural)
цари́цу (accusative dated singular)
цари́цъ (accusative dated plural)
цари́цей (dated instrumental singular)
цари́цею (dated instrumental singular)
цари́цами (dated instrumental plural)
цари́цѣ (dated prepositional singular)
цари́цахъ (dated plural prepositional)

цари́ца Са́вская

empress, queen (in ancient or non-European monarchies)


serva

la-noun

serva f (genitive servae, masculine servus); first declension

servae (genitive)
servus (masculine)
serva (nominative singular)
servae (nominative plural)
servae (genitive singular)
servārum (genitive plural)
servae (dative singular)
servīs (dative plural)
servam (accusative singular)
servās (accusative plural)
servā (ablative singular)
servīs (ablative plural)
serva (singular vocative)
servae (plural vocative)

From servus (“slave, servant”) + -a (feminine suffix).


puella

la-noun

puella f (genitive puellae, masculine puellus); first declension

puellae (genitive)
puellus (masculine)
puella (nominative singular)
puellae (nominative plural)
puellae (genitive singular)
puellārum (genitive plural)
puellae (dative singular)
puellīs (dative plural)
puellam (accusative singular)
puellās (accusative plural)
puellā (ablative singular)
puellīs (ablative plural)
puella (singular vocative)
puellae (plural vocative)

Old French: polle

→ English: puella, ⇒ puella aeterna, puella publica, puellile, puelline

Venetan: putèła

From puellus (“a little boy”), contracted from puerulus (“little boy, little slave”), the diminutive of puer (“boy”).

parvola puella

pueri atque puellae

pueri innuptaeque puellae


trimester

id-noun

trimèstêr (first-person possessive trimesterku, second-person possessive trimestermu, third-person possessive trimesternya)

trimèstêr (canonical)
trimesterku (first-person possessive)
trimestermu (possessive second-person)
trimesternya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch trimester, from French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

trimester: a period of three months or about three months.

(obstetrics) divisions of pregnancy period, each lasting for approximately 3 months.


succubus

Alteration in Middle English (based on incubus m) of Late Latin succuba (“strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep”), from Latin succubo (“to lie under”), from sub- (“under”) + cubare (“to lie down”).


zia

From Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).


lady

⇒ Afrikaans: haar ladyskap

→ Arabic: لِيدِي (līdī)

Egyptian Arabic: ليدي (lēdī)

→ Belarusian: лэ́дзі (lédzi)

→ Bulgarian: ле́йди (léjdi)

→ French: lady

→ German: Lady

→ Greek: λαίδη (laídi), λέδη (lédi)

→ Italian: lady

→ Japanese: レディ (redi), レディー (redī)

→ Korean: 레이디 (reidi)

→ Latvian: lēdija

→ Macedonian: леди (ledi)

→ Polish: lady

→ Romanian: lady

→ Russian: ле́ди (lédi)

→ Spanish: lady

→ Swedish: lady

→ Tongan: leitī

→ Ukrainian: ле́ді (lédi)

→ Volapük: läd

From Middle English lady, laddy, lafdi, lavedi, from Old English hlǣfdīġe (“mistress of a household, wife of a lord, lady”, literally “bread-kneader”), from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + dīġe (“kneader”), related to Old English dǣġe (“maker of dough”) (whence dey (“dairymaid”)). Compare also lord. More at loaf, dairy, dough. Unrelated to lad.

inh

A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness.

rouva

title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness

Please direct this lady to the soft furnishings department.

(polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.

Hey, lady, move your car!

Hey, ladies, how are you doing?

It is my Lady, O it is my Loue, O that ſhe knew ſhe were,
 She ſpeakes, yet ſhe ſayes nothing, what of that?

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 59, column 2:

But nothing could now exceed my confusion upon seeing the gentleman and his lady enter

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

(informal) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.

(archaic) gastric mill, the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.


lady

enm-noun

lady (plural ladies, genitive ladies or lady)

ladies (plural)
ladies (genitive)
lady (genitive)

English: lady (see there for further descendants)

Scots: lady, leddy

Yola: laady

From Old English hlǣfdīġe, in turn from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + *dīġe (“maid”).


lady

Unadapted borrowing from English lady, from Middle English lady, laddy, lafdi, lavedi, from Old English hlǣfdīġe.


adventuress

/ədˈvɛntʃəɹɪs/

A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.

And even an iconic movie star like Amitabh Bachchan is not embarrassed to state he approves of actress Aishwarya because she is "homely and domesticated" (read: not a sexual adventuress).

2008, Shobba De, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable, pages 90–01:


nonna

Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.

An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas, or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy.

2009 July 29, Alex Witchel, “Borscht: What Would Nana Say?”, in New York Times:

(informal) A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.


nonna

it-noun

nonna f (plural nonne, masculine nonno, pejorative nonnàccia, endearing nonnùccia, diminutive-endearing nonnétta or nonnettìna or nonnìna)

nonne (plural)
nonno (masculine)
nonnàccia (pejorative)
nonnùccia (endearing)

→ English: nonna

→ Greek: νόνα (nóna)

→ Italiot Greek: nunna

→ Mòcheno: nu'na


ada

ada (predicative)
ada (nominative without-modifier)
ada (nominative with-modifier)
adate^(*)) (genitive without-modifier)
ada^(*)) (genitive with-modifier)
adate (dative without-modifier)
adara (dative with-modifier)
ada^(*)) (accusative)
adatenni (ablative without-modifier)
adanni (ablative with-modifier)

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Hadiyya ada, Kambaata ada and Oromo adaadaa.


concubine

From Middle English concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna.

He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 20:4–6:

Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

c. 1909, Mark Twain, “Letter VIII”, in Letters from the Earth:

(chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.


concubine

English: concubine

From Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna.

A concubine; a secondary female partner.

(rare) A illegitimate or unacknowledged partner (male or female)


tytär

tytär (nominative singular)
tyttäret (nominative plural)
tyttären (genitive singular)
tyttäriin (genitive plural)
tytärtä (partitive singular)
tyttäriä (partitive plural)
tyttäree (illative singular)
tyttärii (illative plural)
tyttärees (inessive singular)
tyttäriis (inessive plural)
tyttärest (elative singular)
tyttärist (elative plural)
tyttärelle (allative singular)
tyttärille (allative plural)
tyttäreel (adessive singular)
tyttäriil (adessive plural)
tyttärelt (ablative singular)
tyttärilt (ablative plural)
tyttäreks (singular translative)
tyttäriks (plural translative)
tyttärennä (essive singular)
tyttäreen (essive singular)
tyttärinnä (essive plural)
tyttäriin (essive plural)
tyttärent (exessive singular)
tyttärint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *tüt'är. Cognates include Finnish tytär and Estonian tütar.


tytär

head

tytär (genitive tyttären, partitive tytärtä／tytärdä)

tyttären (genitive)
tytärtä／tytärdä (partitive)
tytär (nominative singular)
tyttäret (nominative plural)
tyttären (genitive singular)
tyttärien (genitive plural)
tytärtä (partitive singular)
tyttärie (partitive plural)
tyttäreh (illative singular)
tyttärih (illative plural)
tyttäreššä (inessive singular)
tyttärissä (inessive plural)
tyttäreštä (elative singular)
tyttäristä (elative plural)
tyttärellä (adessive singular)
tyttärillä (adessive plural)
tyttäreltä (ablative singular)
tyttäriltä (ablative plural)
tyttärekši (singular translative)
tyttäriksi (plural translative)
tyttärinä (essive singular)
tyttärinä (essive plural)
tyttärineh (comitative plural)
tyttärettä (abessive singular)
tyttärittä (abessive plural)
tytär (nominative singular)
tyttäret (nominative plural)
tyttären (genitive singular)
tyttärien (genitive plural)
tytärdä (partitive singular)
tyttärie (partitive plural)
tyttäreh (illative singular)
tyttärih (illative plural)
tyttäreššä (inessive singular)
tyttärissä (inessive plural)
tyttäreštä (elative singular)
tyttäristä (elative plural)
tyttärellä (adessive singular)
tyttärillä (adessive plural)
tyttäreldä (ablative singular)
tyttärildä (ablative plural)
tyttärekši (singular translative)
tyttäriksi (plural translative)
tyttärenä (essive singular)
tyttärinä (essive plural)
tyttärenke (comitative singular)
tyttärinke (comitative plural)
tyttärettä (abessive singular)
tyttärittä (abessive plural)
tyttäreni (first-person possessive)
tyttäreš (possessive second-person)
tyttäreh (possessive third-person)

krl-decl-table

type 11/<i class="Latn mention" lang="krl">paimen</i>, tt-t gradation

From Proto-Finnic *tüt'är. Cognates include Finnish tytär and Veps tütär.


tyttö

head

tyttö (genitive tytön, partitive tyttyö)

tytön (genitive)
tyttyö (partitive)
tyttö (nominative singular)
tytöt (nominative plural)
tytön (genitive singular)
tytölöin (genitive plural)
tyttyö (partitive singular)
tyttölöi (partitive plural)
tyttöh (illative singular)
tyttölöih (illative plural)
tytös (inessive singular)
tytölöis (inessive plural)
tytöspäi (elative singular)
tytölöispäi (elative plural)
tytöle (allative singular)
tytölöile (allative plural)
tytöl (adessive singular)
tytölöil (adessive plural)
tytölpäi (ablative singular)
tytölöilpäi (ablative plural)
tytökse (singular translative)
tytölöikse (plural translative)
tytönny (essive singular)
tytölöinny (essive plural)
tytöttäh (abessive singular)
tytölöittäh (abessive plural)
tytönke (comitative singular)
tytölöinke (comitative plural)
tytölöin (instructive plural)
tytöči (prolative singular)

olo-decl

Type 9/<i class="Latn mention" lang="olo">tyttö</i>, tt-t gradation

From Proto-Finnic *tüttoi. Cognates include Finnish tyttö and Ingrian tyttö.


bride

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).

I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9:

Has by his own experience tried
 How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:

Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

(obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.


bride

an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework


bride

English: bride

Scots: bride

Yola: breede

Inherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).


nun

From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.

onomatopoeic

children's speech

Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.

1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.

non

member of a non-Christian religious community of women


pink-collar

en-adj

pink-collar (comparative more pink-collar, superlative most pink-collar)

more pink-collar (comparative)
most pink-collar (superlative)

/ˈpɪŋk ˌkɑlɚ/

From pink + collar.
By analogy with various constructions ending in the word collar, especially blue-collar, and from the traditional conception of pink as a feminine color (with blue its masculine counterpart), a conception perhaps magnified in this case by the sometime popularity of pink blouses among women in the service industry.

Black men have tended to congregate in laborers' jobs and certain service occupations, young workers in trade and such service enterprises as gas stations (to a lesser extent also in laborers' jobs), and women in the so-called "pink collar" occupations in trade, the services, and clerical work in all industrial sectors.

1977, Glenn Siebert, Employment Service Potential: Indicators of Labor Market Activity, Sacramento, Calif.: Employment Research Section, California Employment Development Department, →OCLC, page 115:

Good examples of employees under hidden stress are the nation's pink-collar workers. This group includes secretaries, clerks, data processors, telephone operators, and others.

1992, Emrika Padus, The Complete Guide to Your Emotions and Your Health: Hundreds of Proven Techniques to Harmonize Mind & Body for Happy, Healthy Living, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, →ISBN, page 210:

These days, girls and women of all ages are still reading them, particularly the blue collar or pink collar workers or wives of blue collar workers.

2003, Peggy Fielding, Confessing for Money, Denton, Tx.: AWOC.COM, →ISBN, page 7:

Of or pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries.


子宮

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (子宮):
* → Japanese: 子(し)宮(きゅう) (shikyū)
* → Korean: 자궁(子宮) (jagung)
* → Vietnamese: tử cung (子宮)

/t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡siː³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tu⁵⁵ kɵŋ³³/

/t͡sɨ³¹ ki̯uŋ²⁴/

/t͡sɨ²⁴⁻³³ kiuŋ⁵³/

/t͡sz̩⁵³ kuŋ¹¹/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiɔŋ³³/

/t͡si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiɔŋ³³/

/t͡sɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ keŋ³³/

/t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡siː³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tu⁵⁵ kɵŋ³³/

/t͡sɨ³¹ ki̯uŋ²⁴/

/t͡sɨ²⁴⁻³³ kiuŋ⁵³/

/t͡sz̩⁵³ kuŋ¹¹/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiɔŋ³³/

/t͡si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiɔŋ³³/

/t͡sɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ keŋ³³/

Attested in 千金翼方 [c. 682] by Tang dynasty physician Sun Simiao.

子宮穿孔

子宫穿孔

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)


rubber

(sports, Canada, US) A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.

"Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting."

1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League:


alumna

en-noun

alumna (plural alumnae or alumni or alumnas)

alumnae (plural)
alumni (plural)
alumnas (plural)

A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).


alumna

la-noun

alumna f (genitive alumnae, masculine alumnus); first declension

alumnae (genitive)
alumnus (masculine)
alumna (nominative singular)
alumnae (nominative plural)
alumnae (genitive singular)
alumnārum (genitive plural)
alumnae (dative singular)
alumnīs (dative plural)
alumnam (accusative singular)
alumnās (accusative plural)
alumnā (ablative singular)
alumnīs (ablative plural)
alumna (singular vocative)
alumnae (plural vocative)

English: alumna

Catalan: alumne

Italian: alunna

Portuguese: aluna

Romanian: alumnă

Spanish: alumna


glass ceiling

A metaphor using ceiling to suggest a barrier to upward mobility, and glass to allude to the often unacknowledged or “invisible” nature of this limitation.
Coined by US author and diversity advocate Marilyn Loden in 1978.

coin

There are fears of hitting a "glass ceiling" beyond which known or suspected gay men and lesbians cannot rise. According to Fortune: "In a 1987 survey by the Wall Street Journal, 66% of major-company CEO's said they would be reluctant to put a homosexual on management committees"

1991 December 15, Kathyrin E. Diaz, “Telling Fortune”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 7:

Women are “woefully” under-represented in parliament, the courts and the boardroom, with new research showing that the glass ceiling is still holding back 6,000 women from the top 33,000 jobs in Britain.

2007 January 5, Polly Curtis, “Six thousand women missing from boardrooms, politics and courts”, in The Guardian:

[…] it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal. They promised her a meritocracy and gave her a glass ceiling instead: “It just wasn’t fair.”

2017 September 19, Jennifer Szalai, “The Education of Ellen Pao”, in New York Times:

“Has the glass ceiling shattered?” said Bakari Sellers, a political ally of Harris. “No, but it does have another crack.”

2021 November 19, Chris Megerian, quoting Bakari Sellers, “Kamala Harris makes history, again, as first woman with presidential power — for 85 minutes”, in Los Angeles Times:

And yet as we stand amid the metaphorical shards of all those shattered glass ceilings, it’s hard to ignore the fact that empowerment feminism hasn’t really delivered on its promises.

2022 July 29, Lux Alptraum, “Women, the Game Is Rigged. It’s Time We Stop Playing by the Rules.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

“My father really believed at some point that [communism]^([sic]) would be great for humanity, perhaps also because he was facing all the glass ceilings for being a Jewish boy,” she says.

2023 October 14, Raphael Minder, quoting Agnieszka Holland, “Lunch with the FT”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a member of a specific demographic group.


أنثى

ar-noun

أُنْثَى • (ʔunṯā) f (dual أُنْثَيَانِ (ʔunṯayāni), plural إِنَاث (ʔināṯ) or أَنَاثَى (ʔanāṯā) or أُنُث (ʔunuṯ))

أُنْثَى (canonical)
ʔunṯā (romanization)
أُنْثَيَانِ (dual)
إِنَاث (plural)
أَنَاثَى (plural)
أُنُث (plural)
أُنْثَى (indefinite informal invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite informal invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (construct informal invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (indefinite invariable nominative singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite invariable nominative singular)
أُنْثَى (construct invariable nominative singular)
أُنْثَى (accusative indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَى (accusative definite invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (accusative construct invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (genitive indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite genitive invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (construct genitive invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْن (dual indefinite informal invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْن (definite dual informal invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْ (construct dual informal invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَانِ (dual indefinite invariable nominative singular)
الْأُنْثَيَانِ (definite dual invariable nominative singular)
أُنْثَيَا (construct dual invariable nominative singular)
أُنْثَيَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْنِ (accusative definite dual invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْ (accusative construct dual invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْنِ (definite dual genitive invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْ (construct dual genitive invariable singular)
إِنَاث (broken-form indefinite informal invariable plural)
إِنَاث (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite informal invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
أُنُث (broken-form indefinite informal invariable plural)
أُنُث (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْإِنَاث (broken-form definite informal invariable plural)
الْإِنَاث (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite informal invariable plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْأُنُث (broken-form definite informal invariable plural)
الْأُنُث (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
إِنَاث (broken-form construct informal invariable plural)
إِنَاث (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form construct informal invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أُنُث (broken-form construct informal invariable plural)
أُنُث (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
إِنَاثٌ (broken-form indefinite invariable nominative plural)
إِنَاثٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite invariable nominative plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أُنُثٌ (broken-form indefinite invariable nominative plural)
أُنُثٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثُ (broken-form definite invariable nominative plural)
الْإِنَاثُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite invariable nominative plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْأُنُثُ (broken-form definite invariable nominative plural)
الْأُنُثُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
إِنَاثُ (broken-form construct invariable nominative plural)
إِنَاثُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form construct invariable nominative plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أُنُثُ (broken-form construct invariable nominative plural)
أُنُثُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
إِنَاثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite invariable plural)
إِنَاثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form indefinite invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
أُنُثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite invariable plural)
أُنُثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form definite invariable plural)
الْإِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form definite invariable plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْأُنُثَ (accusative broken-form definite invariable plural)
الْأُنُثَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
إِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form construct invariable plural)
إِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form construct invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أُنُثَ (accusative broken-form construct invariable plural)
أُنُثَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
إِنَاثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite invariable plural)
إِنَاثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form genitive indefinite invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أُنُثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite invariable plural)
أُنُثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثِ (broken-form definite genitive invariable plural)
الْإِنَاثِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite genitive invariable plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْأُنُثِ (broken-form definite genitive invariable plural)
الْأُنُثِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
إِنَاثِ (broken-form construct genitive invariable plural)
إِنَاثِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form construct genitive invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
أُنُثِ (broken-form construct genitive invariable plural)
أُنُثِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanθ-at-. Related to the verb أَنُثَ (ʔanuṯa, “to be feminine”). Has the form of a feminine elative. Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎀𐎘𐎚 (ảṯt, “wife”), Akkadian 𒁮 (aššatum, “wife”), Aramaic אִנְתְּתָא (ʾintəṯā), אִיתְּתָא (ʾittəṯā), Hebrew אִשָּׁה (ʾiššâ) and Classical Syriac ܐܢܬܬܐ.

cog

Aramaic אִנְתְּתָא (ʾintəṯā)

Hebrew אִשָּׁה (ʾiššâ)

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا

O mankind! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female and made you nations and tribes that you may be well acquainted with one another.

yā ʔayyuhā n-nāsu ʔinnā ḵalaqnākum min ḏakarin wa-ʔunṯā wa-jaʕalnākum šuʕūban wa-qabāʔila li-taʕārafū


أنثى

ar-adj

أُنْثَى • (ʔunṯā) (common plural إِنَاث (ʔināṯ) or أَنَاثَى (ʔanāṯā) or أُنُث (ʔunuṯ))

أُنْثَى (canonical)
ʔunṯā (romanization)
إِنَاث (common plural)
أَنَاثَى (common plural)
أُنُث (common plural)
أُنْثَى (indefinite informal invariable masculine singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite informal invariable masculine singular)
أُنْثَى (feminine indefinite informal invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite feminine informal invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (indefinite invariable masculine nominative singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite invariable masculine nominative singular)
أُنْثَى (feminine indefinite invariable nominative singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite feminine invariable nominative singular)
أُنْثَى (accusative indefinite invariable masculine singular)
الْأُنْثَى (accusative definite invariable masculine singular)
أُنْثَى (accusative feminine indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَى (accusative definite feminine invariable singular)
أُنْثَى (genitive indefinite invariable masculine singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite genitive invariable masculine singular)
أُنْثَى (feminine genitive indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَى (definite feminine genitive invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْن (dual indefinite informal invariable masculine singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْن (definite dual informal invariable masculine singular)
أُنْثَيَيْن (dual feminine indefinite informal invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْن (definite dual feminine informal invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَانِ (dual indefinite invariable masculine nominative singular)
الْأُنْثَيَانِ (definite dual invariable masculine nominative singular)
أُنْثَيَانِ (dual feminine indefinite invariable nominative singular)
الْأُنْثَيَانِ (definite dual feminine invariable nominative singular)
أُنْثَيَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite invariable masculine singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْنِ (accusative definite dual invariable masculine singular)
أُنْثَيَيْنِ (accusative dual feminine indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْنِ (accusative definite dual feminine invariable singular)
أُنْثَيَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite invariable masculine singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْنِ (definite dual genitive invariable masculine singular)
أُنْثَيَيْنِ (dual feminine genitive indefinite invariable singular)
الْأُنْثَيَيْنِ (definite dual feminine genitive invariable singular)
إِنَاث (broken-form indefinite informal invariable masculine plural)
إِنَاث (broken-form indefinite informal masculine plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite informal invariable masculine plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite informal masculine plural triptote)
أُنُث (broken-form indefinite informal invariable masculine plural)
أُنُث (broken-form indefinite informal masculine plural triptote)
الْإِنَاث (broken-form definite informal invariable masculine plural)
الْإِنَاث (broken-form definite informal masculine plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite informal invariable masculine plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite informal masculine plural triptote)
الْأُنُث (broken-form definite informal invariable masculine plural)
الْأُنُث (broken-form definite informal masculine plural triptote)
إِنَاث (broken-form feminine indefinite informal invariable plural)
إِنَاث (broken-form feminine indefinite informal plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form feminine indefinite informal invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form feminine indefinite informal plural triptote)
أُنُث (broken-form feminine indefinite informal invariable plural)
أُنُث (broken-form feminine indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْإِنَاث (broken-form definite feminine informal invariable plural)
الْإِنَاث (broken-form definite feminine informal plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite feminine informal invariable plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite feminine informal plural triptote)
الْأُنُث (broken-form definite feminine informal invariable plural)
الْأُنُث (broken-form definite feminine informal plural triptote)
إِنَاثٌ (broken-form indefinite invariable masculine nominative plural)
إِنَاثٌ (broken-form indefinite masculine nominative plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite invariable masculine nominative plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form indefinite masculine nominative plural triptote)
أُنُثٌ (broken-form indefinite invariable masculine nominative plural)
أُنُثٌ (broken-form indefinite masculine nominative plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثُ (broken-form definite invariable masculine nominative plural)
الْإِنَاثُ (broken-form definite masculine nominative plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite invariable masculine nominative plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite masculine nominative plural triptote)
الْأُنُثُ (broken-form definite invariable masculine nominative plural)
الْأُنُثُ (broken-form definite masculine nominative plural triptote)
إِنَاثٌ (broken-form feminine indefinite invariable nominative plural)
إِنَاثٌ (broken-form feminine indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form feminine indefinite invariable nominative plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form feminine indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أُنُثٌ (broken-form feminine indefinite invariable nominative plural)
أُنُثٌ (broken-form feminine indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثُ (broken-form definite feminine invariable nominative plural)
الْإِنَاثُ (broken-form definite feminine nominative plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite feminine invariable nominative plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite feminine nominative plural triptote)
الْأُنُثُ (broken-form definite feminine invariable nominative plural)
الْأُنُثُ (broken-form definite feminine nominative plural triptote)
إِنَاثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite invariable masculine plural)
إِنَاثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite masculine plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form indefinite invariable masculine plural)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form indefinite masculine plural triptote)
أُنُثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite invariable masculine plural)
أُنُثًا (accusative broken-form indefinite masculine plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form definite invariable masculine plural)
الْإِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form definite masculine plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form definite invariable masculine plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form definite masculine plural triptote)
الْأُنُثَ (accusative broken-form definite invariable masculine plural)
الْأُنُثَ (accusative broken-form definite masculine plural triptote)
إِنَاثًا (accusative broken-form feminine indefinite invariable plural)
إِنَاثًا (accusative broken-form feminine indefinite plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form feminine indefinite invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form feminine indefinite plural triptote)
أُنُثًا (accusative broken-form feminine indefinite invariable plural)
أُنُثًا (accusative broken-form feminine indefinite plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form definite feminine invariable plural)
الْإِنَاثَ (accusative broken-form definite feminine plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form definite feminine invariable plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (accusative broken-form definite feminine plural triptote)
الْأُنُثَ (accusative broken-form definite feminine invariable plural)
الْأُنُثَ (accusative broken-form definite feminine plural triptote)
إِنَاثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite invariable masculine plural)
إِنَاثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite masculine plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form genitive indefinite invariable masculine plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form genitive indefinite masculine plural triptote)
أُنُثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite invariable masculine plural)
أُنُثٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite masculine plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثِ (broken-form definite genitive invariable masculine plural)
الْإِنَاثِ (broken-form definite genitive masculine plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite genitive invariable masculine plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite genitive masculine plural triptote)
الْأُنُثِ (broken-form definite genitive invariable masculine plural)
الْأُنُثِ (broken-form definite genitive masculine plural triptote)
إِنَاثٍ (broken-form feminine genitive indefinite invariable plural)
إِنَاثٍ (broken-form feminine genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form feminine genitive indefinite invariable plural)
أَنَاثَى (broken-form feminine genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أُنُثٍ (broken-form feminine genitive indefinite invariable plural)
أُنُثٍ (broken-form feminine genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْإِنَاثِ (broken-form definite feminine genitive invariable plural)
الْإِنَاثِ (broken-form definite feminine genitive plural triptote)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite feminine genitive invariable plural)
الْأَنَاثَى (broken-form definite feminine genitive plural triptote)
الْأُنُثِ (broken-form definite feminine genitive invariable plural)
الْأُنُثِ (broken-form definite feminine genitive plural triptote)

cog

Aramaic אִנְתְּתָא (ʾintəṯā)

Hebrew אִשָּׁה (ʾiššâ)


nő

nők (plural)
nő (nominative singular)
nők (nominative plural)
nőt (accusative singular)
nőket (accusative plural)
nőnek (dative singular)
nőknek (dative plural)
nővel (instrumental singular)
nőkkel (instrumental plural)
nőért (causal-final singular)
nőkért (causal-final plural)
nővé (singular translative)
nőkké (plural translative)
nőig (singular terminative)
nőkig (plural terminative)
nőként (essive-formal singular)
nőkként (essive-formal plural)
nőül (essive-modal singular)
nőben (inessive singular)
nőkben (inessive plural)
nőn (singular superessive)
nőkön (plural superessive)
nőnél (adessive singular)
nőknél (adessive plural)
nőbe (illative singular)
nőkbe (illative plural)
nőre (singular sublative)
nőkre (plural sublative)
nőhöz (allative singular)
nőkhöz (allative plural)
nőből (elative singular)
nőkből (elative plural)
nőről (delative singular)
nőkről (delative plural)
nőtől (ablative singular)
nőktől (ablative plural)
nőé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
nőké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
nőéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
nőkéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
nőm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
nőim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
nőd (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
nőid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
nője (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
női (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
nőnk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
nőink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
nőtök (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
nőitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
nőjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
nőik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Proto-Uralic *niŋä (“woman”). Cognates include Northern Mansi нэ̄ (nè̄) and Erzya ни (ńi).

(with a possessive suffix added to the nő- stem, informal) female partner or lover, mistress, girlfriend


meme

When my parents got a divorce my dad washed his hands of my mom and me. He just pretended neither she nor I existed. If it weren't for my Meme, I would have lost all contact with the Atwood family after the divorce.

2011, David G. Atwood II, Into Hell I Rode, page 32:

Then there was my Meme, my father's mother. She was one of the most wonderful, loving, craziest, funniest people I ever had in my life.

2014, Sarah O'Malley, Touching the Edge of Heaven, page 3:

(informal, term of endearment) granny; nana


fall pregnant

en-verb

fall pregnant (third-person singular simple present falls pregnant, present participle falling pregnant, simple past fell pregnant, past participle fallen pregnant)

falls pregnant (present singular third-person)
falling pregnant (participle present)
fell pregnant (past)
fallen pregnant (participle past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fall pregnant.wav

We were delighted when I fell pregnant with my first son.

(intransitive, formal or literary) To become pregnant.

怀孕

typically with 了 (le) to mark the change of state


sestra

sestra (nominative singular)
sestry (nominative plural)
sestry (genitive singular)
sester (genitive plural)
sestře (dative singular)
sestrám (dative plural)
sestru (accusative singular)
sestry (accusative plural)
sestro (singular vocative)
sestry (plural vocative)
sestře (locative singular)
sestrách (locative plural)
sestrou (instrumental singular)
sestrami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech sestra, from Proto-Slavic *sestra, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swésō, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.


sestra

sèstra (canonical feminine)
сѐстра (Cyrillic)
sèstra (nominative singular)
sèstre (nominative plural)
sèstrē (genitive singular)
sestárā (genitive plural)
sèstri (dative singular)
sèstrama (dative plural)
sèstru (accusative singular)
sèstre (accusative plural)
sȅstro (singular vocative)
sȅstre (plural vocative)
sèstri (locative singular)
sèstrama (locative plural)
sèstrōm (instrumental singular)
sèstrama (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sestra, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swésō, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

časna sestra
časna sestra#Serbo-Croatian

medicinska sestra
medicinska sestra#Serbo-Croatian


sestra

sk-noun

sestra f (genitive singular sestry, nominative plural sestry, genitive plural sestier, sestár, declension pattern of žena)

sestry (genitive singular)
sestry (nominative plural)
sestier (genitive plural)
sestár (genitive plural)
žena (declension-pattern-of)
sestra (nominative singular)
sestry (nominative plural)
sestry (genitive singular)
sestier (genitive plural)
sestár (genitive plural)
sestre (dative singular)
sestrám (dative plural)
sestru (accusative singular)
sestry (accusative plural)
sestre (locative singular)
sestrách (locative plural)
sestrou (instrumental singular)
sestrami (instrumental plural)


sestra

séstra (canonical feminine)
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sêstra (nominative singular)
sêstri (dual nominative)
sêstre (nominative plural)
sêstre (genitive singular)
sêster (dual genitive)
sêster (genitive plural)
sêstri (dative singular)
sêstrama (dative dual)
sêstram (dative plural)
sêstro (accusative singular)
sêstri (accusative dual)
sêstre (accusative plural)
sêstri (locative singular)
sêstrah (dual locative)
sêstrah (locative plural)
sêstro (instrumental singular)
sêstrama (dual instrumental)
sêstrami (instrumental plural)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
sêstra (nominative singular)
sestré (dual nominative)
sestré (nominative plural)
sestré (genitive singular)
sestrá (dual genitive)
sestrá (genitive plural)
sêstri (dative singular)
sestráma (dative dual)
sestràm (dative plural)
sestró (accusative singular)
sestré (accusative dual)
sestré (accusative plural)
sêstri (locative singular)
sestràh (dual locative)
sestràh (locative plural)
sestró (instrumental singular)
sestráma (dual instrumental)
sestrámi (instrumental plural)

From Proto-Slavic *sestra, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swésō, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.