The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδούλη“female slave”
- Greek · borrowed fromδούλα“servant-woman”
- English todaydoula
Borrowed from Greek δούλα (doúla, “servant-woman”), from Ancient Greek δούλη (doúlē, “female slave”). Popularized by the American anthropologist Dana Raphael in the book The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding (1973), where the word is credited to Eleni Rassias.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.