Word Origin Summary

*domnicella is attested in Vulgar Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• demoiselle

  English · borrowed from

• denociña

  Galician · inherited from

• doncela

  Galician · inherited from

• donzelle

  Norman · inherited from

• daimoizâle

  Bourguignon · inherited from

• donzelle

  French · inherited from

• donicela

  Galician · inherited from

• donçela

  Occitan · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root