kween

Significado

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

Xénero

♀️ Feminino

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kʋeːn/

Etimoloxía

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”).