English

guildmistress

From guild + mistress.

Old Norse gildi ‘payment, guild’

Middle English gilde

English guild

Proto-Italic *magisteros ‘bigger, greater’

Latin magister

Old French maistre ‘master’

Old French maistresse

Middle English maistresse

Today it means

noun A female leader of a guild.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / guildmistress