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queen

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(Angielski)

Częstotliwość

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/kwiːn/

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski

Dziedziczone z staroangielski

Pokrewny z scots

Pokrewny z Old Saxon

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Pokrewny z niderlandzki

Pokrewny z szwedzki

Pokrewny z norweski

Pokrewny z duński

Pokrewny z islandzki

Pokrewny z gocki

Pokrewny z norweski

Pokrewny z średnioangielski

Pokrewny z staroangielski

In summary

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English Regina). Doublet of quean and gyne. In reference to insects, by analogy with the obsolete term king, which it took over from starting in the 1600s, when they were discovered to be female.