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Lady — American Heritage Dictionary

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American Heritage Dictionary Editors
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2022
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HarperCollins
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lady → lady

Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation

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Middle English lady continues into modern lady with stabilized spelling and pronunciation.
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Household rank develops into aristocratic and polite forms of address.
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lady → hlǣfdige

Middle English → Old English · continuation

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Middle English lady continues Old English hlǣfdige with contraction and loss of the compound’s transparency.
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Mistress-of-household and rank senses continue while literal morphology recedes.
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Etymology: Middle English lady from Old English hlǣfdige

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hlǣfdige → hlāf

Old English → Old English · compound component

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Old English hlǣfdige contains hlāf, loaf or bread, as its first lexical component.
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The household designation shares provision imagery with lord but not the same second component.
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Etymology: hlǣf loaf plus dige kneader

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