kona
Icelandic
/ˈkʰɔːna/
noun
Definitions
- a woman
- (mainly used with a definite article) a wife
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse kona (woman, wife) derived from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (woman).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kwenǭ
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
- cot-quean English
- quean English
- queanie English
- *gʷḗn Proto-Indo-European
- kone Norwegian Bokmål
- *kwenǭ Proto-Germanic
- kone Norwegian Nynorsk
- cwene Old English
- quene Middle English
- bakstrkona Old Norse
- baðkona Old Norse
- byrgiskona Old Norse
- galdrakona Old Norse
- heimakona Old Norse
- kona Old Norse
- konulauss Old Norse
- kvenna Old Norse
- kvennamaðr Old Norse
- kvinna Old Norse
- kvæna Old Norse
- prestkona Old Norse
- seiðkona Old Norse
- trúnaðarkona Old Norse
- frænke Danish
- kone Danish
- bósi Icelandic
- eiginkona Icelandic
- eiginn Icelandic
- gleði Icelandic
- gleðikona Icelandic
- hjúkrun Icelandic
- hjúkrunarkona Icelandic
- knattspyrna Icelandic
- knattspyrnukona Icelandic
- kvennabósi Icelandic
- leika Icelandic
- leikkona Icelandic
- lögregla Icelandic
- lögreglukona Icelandic
- svili Icelandic
- svilkona Icelandic
- vinkona Icelandic
- vinna Icelandic
- vinnukona Icelandic
- vinur Icelandic
- vændi Icelandic
- vændiskona Icelandic
- íþrótt Icelandic
- íþróttakona Icelandic
- þing Icelandic
- þingkona Icelandic
- chuuena Old High German
- quena Old High German
- kona Faroese
- 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 Gothic
- *kwenā gmw-pro
- kwena Old Dutch
- kona Old Swedish
- kunu Westrobothnian
- Kuuna Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- kona Old Danish