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N. †dess n. “young woman” (Category: Girl)

⚠️N. †dess, n. “young woman” (Category: Girl)
S. gwend “maiden, *young woman”

An archaic word in The Etymologies of the 1930s for “young woman” derived from ON. ndissa under the root ᴹ√NDIS (Ety/NDIS), where the i became e via a-affection. Tolkien said of dess that it “does not [survive] except as contributing to sense ‘woman’: cf. bess properly ‘wife’” (EtyAC/NDIS). Hence this word was no longer used in modern language.

References ✧ Ety/BES, NDIS; EtyAC/NDIS, NIS

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ON. dissa > †dess [dissa] > [dessa] > [dess] ✧ Ety/BES