chieftainess

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. A female chieftain.
  2. The wife of a chieftain.

Etimologie (Engels)

From chieftain + -ess. Middle English had an equivalent form cheventaynes but the OED asserts the term was derived anew in modern English in the 19th century. Piecewise doublet of captainess.

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