Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kwenā

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 *kwenǭ.

Noun

*kwenā f^[1]

woman

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kwenā
Genitive	*kwenōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kwenā	*kwenōn
Accusative	*kwenōn	*kwenōn
Genitive	*kwenōn	*kwenōnō
Dative	*kwenōn	kwenōm, kwenum
Instrumental	*kwenōn	kwenōm, kwenum

Descendants

Old English: cwene
- Middle English: quene
  - Scots: quean, quein, quine, quin
  - English: quean
Old Saxon: quena
- Middle Low German: quēne, quêne, kôn (merged with Old Saxon quān)
  - Low German: Quene
    - → German: Queene
Old Dutch: quena
- Middle Dutch: quene, kone
  - Dutch: kween
    - Afrikaans: kween
Old High German: chwena, kwena, quena
- Middle High German: kone, kan, kun, quëne
  - German: Kone (obsolete)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *kwenā”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *kwenā”

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