The story
- Japanese · borrowed from魔女っ子
- English todaymajokko
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 魔女っ子 (majokko), composed of 魔女 (“witch”) + っ子 (“person having a certain quality”, also diminutive suffix). This term is sometimes also glossed in English as “little witch”, the word 子 (ko) meaning “child” or “small”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.