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piga

Pronunciation: /²piːɡa/

“piga” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid.
  2. a girl, a young woman
  3. an unmarried woman (regardless of age)

Etymology

From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka and Danish pige. Also cognate with Finnish piika, Estonian piiga, and arguably, with Chuvash пике́ (pik̬é, “noblewoman, beauty”). Difficult to determine which language borrowed from which.

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