Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kwāni

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kwēniz.

Noun

*kwāni f^[1]

(North Sea Germanic) woman, wife

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kwāni
Genitive	*kwānī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kwāni	*kwānī
Accusative	*kwāni	*kwānī
Genitive	*kwānī	*kwānijō
Dative	*kwānī	kwānim, kwānijum
Instrumental	*kwānī	kwānim, kwānijum

Descendants

Old English: cwēn, cwǣn, cuēn, cwœ̄n — Anglian, cœ̄n — Northumbrian
- Middle English: quene, qwene, cwene, queene, quen, qween, qweene, queyne, qwenne, qwhene, kuene, quiene, queen
  - English: queen (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: queen, wheen
  - Yola: queen
Old Saxon: quān
- >? Middle Low German: quêne, kôn (merged with Old Saxon quena)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 230: “PWGmc *kwāni”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 230: “PWGmc *kwāni”

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