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From heir -ess
heiress (plural heiresses
A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon ], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. [ … ] , volume I, London: Henry Colburn , [ … ] 1842 , →OCLC page 120 :"Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?" heiress have you picked up?" asked his sister. "I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present."
A woman who has received an inheritance. a woman who stands to inherit
Arabic: وَارِثَة f ( wāriṯa )
Belarusian: насле́дніца f ( nasljédnica )
Bulgarian: насле́дничка f ( naslédnička )
Czech: dědička (cs) f
Danish: arving (da) c
Estonian: pärijanna pärija ( any gender )
Finnish: perijätär (fi)
French: héritière (fr) f successeuse (fr) f successrice (fr) f
Georgian: მემკვიდრე ( memḳvidre )
German: Erbin (de) f
Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐍉 f ( arbjō )
Irish: banoidhre m
Italian: ereditiera (it) f
Japanese: 世継ぎ (ja) ( よつぎ, yotsugi )
Latin: hēres (la) f
Latvian: mantiniece f
Lithuanian: paveldėtoja f
Macedonian: наследничка f ( naslednička )
Polish: dziedzicka f spadkobierczyni (pl) f sukcesorka f
Portuguese: herdeira f
Romanian: moștenitoare (ro) f
Russian: насле́дница (ru) f ( naslédnica ) , прее́мница (ru) f ( prejémnica )
Scottish Gaelic: ban-oighre f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на́следница f на́сљедница f
Roman: následnica f násljednica (sh) f
Slovak: dedička f
Slovene: dedinja f naslednica f
Spanish: heredera (es) f
Swedish: arvinge (sv) c arvtagerska (sv) c
Ukrainian: наслі́дниця f ( naslídnycja ) , спадкоє́миця f ( spadkojémycja )
Welsh: aeres f
