Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• (Glagolitic): ⰴⱑⰲⰰ ‎(děva)

Noun

дѣва • ‎(děva) f

1. virgin
2. maiden

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *děva ‎(“maiden, girl”).

Noun

дѣва ‎(děva) f

1. maiden, damsel, virgin

Synonyms

• дѣваꙗ ‎(děvaja)

Descendants

• Russian: де́ва ‎(déva)
• Ukrainian: діва ‎(diva)

References

• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “дѣва”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 780