Maid

From: tgpedersen
Message: 31715
Date: 2004-04-05

By memory (so approx, sorry!)

PGmc. *mag- "male relative" (and cognates in Celtic)
PGmc. *mag-T- "maid" (German Magd)

Vennemann proposes that the -T- is the Semitic feminine suffix.

In the introductory chapter "Guanche words" of a translation by
Charles Markham of Friar Alonso de Espinosa: "The Guanches of
Tenerife" I find

Guanche maguada, magath "vestal", "maid"

Torsten