dess

noun. young woman

An archaic word in The Etymologies of the 1930s for “young woman” derived from ON. ndissa under the root ᴹ√NDIS (Ety/NDIS), where the i became e via a-affection. Tolkien said of dess that it “does not [survive] except as contributing to sense ‘woman’: cf. bess properly ‘wife’” (EtyAC/NDIS). Hence this word was no longer used in modern language.

dess

noun. young woman

bess

noun. (young) woman

bess

noun. wife

dî

noun. woman, lady

gwîn

adjective. young

neth

adjective. young

neth

adjective. young

irregular, compare: tathor @@@