dairy

dairy
\ \ [13] Etymologically, a dairy is a place where a female kneader of bread works. The term for such an operative in Old English was dǣge, which came from the same Indo- European base (*dheigh-) as produced dough and the second syllable of lady. In Middle English this became deie or daye, and gradually progressed in meaning through ‘female servant’ in general to ‘female farm-servant’ and ‘dairymaid’, concerned with the keeping of milk and making it into butter and cheese (the word survived into modern times in Scottish English).
\ \ From it was derived deierie or dayerie, to denote the place where such a woman worked.
\ \ Cf.DOUGH, LADY

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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