stepdaughter

English

Etymology

From Middle English stepdoughter, stepdoghter, steopdohter, from Old English stēopdohtor (“stepdaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *steupaduhtēr (“stepdaughter”), equivalent to step- +‎ daughter.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifdochter (“stepdaughter”), West Frisian styfdochter (“stepdaughter”), Dutch stiefdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Low German Steevdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Stieftochter (“stepdaughter”), Danish steddatter (“stepdaughter”), Swedish styvdotter (“stepdaughter”), Icelandic stjúpdóttir (“stepdaughter”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: step‧daugh‧ter

Noun

stepdaughter (plural stepdaughters)

1. The daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself.

Hypernyms

• stepchild

Hyponyms

• stepsister

Translations

daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself

• Armenian: խորթ դուստր (xortʿ dustr), խորթ աղջիկ (xortʿ ałǰik) (colloquial)
• Asturian: fiastra (ast) f, andada (ast) f
• Belarusian: падчарка f (pádčarka), пасербка f (páserbka)
• Catalan: fillastra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繼女 (zh), 继女 (zh) (jìnǚ)

• Czech: nevlastní dcera f, pastorkyně f
• Danish: steddatter c
• Dutch: stiefdochter (nl) f
• Esperanto: vicfilino, (sometimes) duonfilino
• Finnish: tytärpuoli
• French: belle-fille (fr) f
• Friulian: fiastre f
• Georgian: გერი (geri)
• German: Stieftochter (de) f
• Greek: προγονή (el) f (progoní)
• Hausa: agoliya
• Hungarian: mostohalány (hu)
• Icelandic: stjúpdóttir f
• Ido: stif-filiino (io)
• Irish: leasiníon f
• Italian: figliastra (it) f
• Japanese: 継娘 (ままむすめ, mamamusume)
• Korean: 의붓딸 (uibutttal)
• Latin: prīvigna f

• Latvian: pameita f
• Maori: tamāhine whakaangi, hine whakaangi, tamāhine kē
• Navajo: hatsiʼ ájíłʼíní, hatsiʼ jíłʼíní (male speaker), hachʼéʼé ájíłʼíní, hachʼéʼé jíłʼíní (female speaker)
• Nogai: оьгей кыз (ögey kız)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stedatter m or f

  Nynorsk: stedotter f

• Old English: stēopdohtor f
• Persian: دختندر‎ (fa) (doxtandar)
• Polish: pasierbica (pl) f
• Portuguese: enteada (pt) f
• Russian: па́дчерица (ru) f (pádčerica), приёмная дочь f (prijómnaja dočʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: leas-nighean f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пасторка f, покћер f

  Roman: pastorka (sh) f, pokćer (sh) f

• Slovene: pastorka f
• Spanish: hijastra (es) f
• Swedish: styvdotter (sv) c
• Telugu: సవతికూతురు (savatikūturu)
• Turkish: üvey kız (tr)
• Ukrainian: падчерка f (pádčerka), пасербиця f (páserbycja)
• Vietnamese: con gái riêng
• Volapük: ludaut (vo), jilucil

See also

• Category:English words prefixed with step-