Am 15.11.2017 um 00:26 schrieb Noeck:
The diminutive of „Magd“ is „Mägdelein“ or maybe „Mägdchen“ (nobody
would use the latter), but not „Mädchen“.
But still "Mädchen" seems to be derived from "Magd":
http://www.wissen.de/wortherkunft/maedchen
Yes, Grimm agrees
<http://woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/wbgui_py?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GM00094#XGM00094>.
It's a pity that Mark Twain did not know about "Mensch": "Der Mensch" (masculine) means "the human being".
The old "das Mensch" (neuter) means "a female human being" and is still occasionally used in some areas of Germany.
Plural: "Die Menscher" ;-)
cu,
Knut
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