meita

Etymology
. A few possibilities are: Akin to 🇨🇬.
 * Borrowed from a language (compare  and ).
 * From, via an adjective in the form of.
 * From the verb . The semantic shift would be "changing (of status, via marriage)" > "young woman about to be married" > "unmarried woman".

Noun

 * 1) daughter
 * 2) girl, lass

Etymology
Traditionally, this word is considered borrowed from (or from 🇨🇬,, or 🇨🇬), which replaced an older 🇨🇬 word, probably , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< 🇨🇬). It has, however, been pointed out that (a) the meaning “daughter” is older (“servant” is attested only from the 19th century), which is the opposite of what should happen if it were a borrowing from Germanic; (b) the broken intonation is not usual in borrowings from Germanic; and (c) the presumed original word has left no trace in place names, dialectal forms, etc. On account of that, some researchers believe that  is not a borrowing, but actually the original word for “daughter” in Latvian, i.e. Latvian did not derive “daughter” from 🇨🇬 (like 🇨🇬, which has ). A possible source would be, with an extra t; would have originally been the feminine form of the resulting adjective. Another possibility would be the same stem as : the original meaning would have been “changing (status, via marriage)” > “young woman about to get married” > “unmarried young woman; daughter.”

Noun

 * 1) daughter a female child, with respect to her parents
 * 2)  young, unmarried woman
 * 3) female servant, usually unmarried
 * 4)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1)  young, unmarried woman
 * 2) female servant, usually unmarried
 * 3)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1)  young, unmarried woman
 * 2) female servant, usually unmarried
 * 3)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1) female servant, usually unmarried
 * 2)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1) female servant, usually unmarried
 * 2)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1) female servant, usually unmarried
 * 2)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)
 * 1)  daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.)