quene
Middle English
/ˈkweːn(ə)/, /ˈkwɛːn(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A queen female monarch, queen regnant
- A queen consort to a king or similar ruler, queen consort
- Any powerful woman noble e.g. a former queen consort, a duchess, etc.
- A female divine or holy figure; a female divinity or the Virgin Mary.
- A female embodiment, exemplar, or representation of a moral ideal.
- (familiar) An affectionate or loving way to refer to a woman one loves.
- (rare) A female follower of Christianity in heaven.
- (rare) The queen (chess piece introduced towards the end of the ME era)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English cwēn (woman, queen, wife) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (woman).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kwēniz
Gloss
woman
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
女
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Queen Elizabeth Islands English
- Queenie English
- Queenite English
- Queensferry English
- antiqueen English
- butch queen English
- cot-quean English
- dequeen English
- gylany English
- gyne English
- gynecide English
- gynemimetic English
- merqueen English
- multiqueen English
- quean English
- queanie English
- queen English
- queen bee English
- queen-cage English
- queen-size English
- queencraft English
- queendom English
- queener English
- queenfish English
- queenhood English
- queenie English
- queenish English
- queenless English
- queenlet English
- queenlike English
- queenly English
- queenmaker English
- queenright English
- queenship English
- queenside English
- queeny English
- requeen English
- semiqueen English
- unqueen English
- yas queen English
- Queen German
- gynécologie French
- philogynie French
- жена Russian
- cuina Spanish, Castilian
- γυνή Ancient Greek
- γυναικεῖος Ancient Greek
- λ(ύειν), λύειν Ancient Greek
- ἀνδρόγυνος Ancient Greek
- *gʷénh₂s, *gʷḗn Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷḗn Proto-Indo-European
- *kwenǭ Proto-Germanic
- *kwēniz Proto-Germanic
- クイーン Japanese
- żona Polish
- Cwenland Old English
- cwene Old English
- cwenfugol Old English
- cwenlic Old English
- cwēn Old English
- ealdcwen Old English
- horcwene Old English
- portcwene Old English
- जनि Sanskrit
- cwene Middle English
- queene Middle English
- quen Middle English
- quenes Middle English
- qwene Middle English
- kván Old Norse
- kvæn Old Norse
- *žena Proto-Slavic
- žena Czech
- žena Serbo-Croatian
- жена Serbo-Croatian
- زن Persian
- پیرزن Persian
- ควีน Thai
- γυναίκα Greek (modern)
- жена Bulgarian
- 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- *kwenā gmw-pro
- *kwāni gmw-pro
- жена Macedonian
- жона Ukrainian
- жінка Ukrainian
- žena Slovak
- 퀸 Korean
- жонка Belarusian
- žena Slovene
- quean Scots
- жена Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *ȷ́ánHiṣ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- kwiin Marshallese
- žeńska Lower Sorbian
- žona Lower Sorbian
- kwin Tok Pisin
- *génāˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- γυναίκα gkm
- *ǰánHh Proto-Iranian
- ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀ Panjabi, Punjabi
- žona Upper Sorbian
- żona Kashubian
- жена Rusyn
- жона Rusyn
- žena Molise Croatian
- G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown American Sign Language