Noun: damsel
| Singular | damsel |
| Plural | damsels |
Sample Sentences
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And here I might (if I followed the example of most travellers) launch out into a glowing description of the charms of these damsels, the elegant costumes they wore, and the gold and silver ornaments with which they were adorned. The jacket or body of purple gauze would figure well in such a description, allowing the heaving bosom to be seen beneath it, while "sparkling eyes," and "jetty tresses," and "tiny feet" might be thrown in profusely. But, alas! [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 343:]
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The spout that conveys the grain from the hopper to the eye or centre of the upper millstone rests against the spindle, just at the damsel, and thus receives an alternate back and forward motion, […] [1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, volume 4, page 263:]
Nouns inflected like damsel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *dṓmder.
5. Proto-Italic *domanos
6. Latin dominus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
8. Proto-Italic *-ikos
9. Latin -icus
10. Latin dominicus
11. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
12. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
13. Proto-Italic *-elos
14. Latin -lus
15. Latin -ellus
16. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
17. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
18. Proto-Italic *-ā
19. Latin -a
20. Vulgar Latin *dominicella
21. Vulgar Latin *domnicella
22. Old French domnizelle
23. Old French damoiselebor.
24. Middle English dameisele
25. English damsel
26. From Middle English dameisele, from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, a diminutive from Classical Latin domina (“mistress, lady”), from dominus, from *demh₂-. Doublet of demoiselle, doncella, and donzella. See: Middle English Nouns '
dameisele', Latin Nouns '
domina'.