kween

(Engels)

1. (feminine) barren hermaphrodite cow, mostly female with male traits; (by extension) any infertile hermaphrodite female animal held as livestock
2. (dated, feminine) woman past child-bearing age; old woman, crone

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kʋeːn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle Dutch: quene

Geërf van Old Dutch: kwena

Verwante met Engels: quean

Verwante met Duits: Queene

In summary

From Middle Dutch quene (“wife, woman”), from Old Dutch kwena, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Cognate with English quean, archaic German Queene (“heifer”).