maiden: [OE] Maiden goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *magadiz ‘young (sexually inexperienced) woman’, which is also the source of German m?dchen ‘girl’. Its diminutive form, *magadīnam, passed into Old English as m?gden, the antecedent of modern English maiden. Maid is a 12th-century abbreviation.
maiden (n.)
Old English m?gden, m?den "maiden, virgin, girl; maid, servant," diminutive of m?ge, m?gee "virgin, girl; woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *magadinom "young womanhood, sexually inexperienced female" (cognates: Old Saxon magath, Old Frisian maged, Old High German magad "virgin, maid," German Magd "maid, maidservant," German M?dchen "girl, maid," from M?gdchen "little maid"), fem. variant of PIE root *maghu- "youngster of either sex, unmarried person" (cognates: Old English magu "child, son, male descendant," Avestan magava- "unmarried," Old Irish maug "slave").
maiden (adj.)
"virgin, unmarried," c. 1300, from maiden (n.). The figurative sense of "new fresh, first" (as in maiden voyage) is first recorded 1550s. Maiden name is from 1680s.
例文
1. The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden .
王子は若く美しい少女に恋をした.
2.The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.
この飛行機は明日初飛行する。
3.Her maiden name is Li.
彼女の実家は李.
4. Looking up at the eaves, Orchid muttered: " Why isn't Spring Maiden back yet? 」