Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. · A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Doublet of gyne and queen. Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kone (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō, “woman”), 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”).
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- Inherited-form mentionqueneenm
- Inherited-form mentioncweneang
- Inherited-form mention*kwenāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kwenǭgem-pro
- Derivation mention*gʷḗnine-pro
- Doublet mentiongyneen
- Doublet mentionqueenen
- Cognate mentionkweennl
- Cognate mentionquenends
- Cognate mentionKonede
- Cognate mentionkvinnasv
- Cognate mentionkonais
- Cognate mention𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉got · woman
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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