kona
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- woman
- wife
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (woman) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (woman).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷḗn
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
- γυνή Ancient Greek
- γυνή, γυναῖκα Ancient Greek
- *bʰergʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷḗn Proto-Indo-European
- ekskone Norwegian Bokmål
- kone Norwegian Bokmål
- *kwenǭ Proto-Germanic
- *kwēniz Proto-Germanic
- kona Swedish
- ekskone Norwegian Nynorsk
- kone Norwegian Nynorsk
- sonekone Norwegian Nynorsk
- cwene Old English
- जनी Sanskrit
- bakstr Old Norse
- bakstrkona Old Norse
- bað Old Norse
- baðkona Old Norse
- byrgi Old Norse
- byrgiskona Old Norse
- frændi Old Norse
- galdr Old Norse
- galdrakona Old Norse
- heimakona Old Norse
- heimr Old Norse
- konulauss Old Norse
- kvenna Old Norse
- kvennamaðr Old Norse
- kvinna Old Norse
- kvæna Old Norse
- lauss Old Norse
- maðr Old Norse
- prestkona Old Norse
- prestr Old Norse
- seiðkona Old Norse
- seiðr Old Norse
- trúnaðarkona Old Norse
- trúnaðr Old Norse
- ekskone Danish
- frænke Danish
- kone Danish
- konebåd Danish
- tissekone Danish
- *žena Proto-Slavic
- eiginkona Icelandic
- gleðikona Icelandic
- hjúkrunarkona Icelandic
- knattspyrnukona Icelandic
- kona Icelandic
- kvennabósi Icelandic
- leikkona Icelandic
- lögreglukona Icelandic
- svilkona Icelandic
- vinkona Icelandic
- vinnukona Icelandic
- vændiskona Icelandic
- íþróttakona Icelandic
- þingkona Icelandic
- зан Persian
- کانم Persian
- chuuena Old High German
- quena Old High German
- կին Old Armenian
- havnarkona Faroese
- kona Faroese
- konufólk Faroese
- kópakona Faroese
- songkona Faroese
- vinkona Faroese
- 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 Gothic
- *kwenā gmw-pro
- kwena Old Dutch
- *ben Proto-Celtic
- *benā Proto-Celtic
- *ǰánHs Proto-Indo-Iranian
- kona Old Swedish
- kunu Westrobothnian
- *génāˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *ǰánHh Proto-Iranian
- Kuuna Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- śana Tocharian B
- frænke Old Danish
- kona Old Danish
- śäṃ Tocharian A
- ben Old Welsh
- 𐀓𐀙𐀊 Mycenaean Greek
- 𒉿𒈾𒀜𒋾𒅖 Luwian
- γῠνά̄ grc-dor