kvinna

From Old Norse kvenna, from genitive plural of kona (“wife, woman”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

• IPA^(key): [kʰvɪnːa]

kvinna f (genitive singular kvinnu, plural kvinnur)

1. woman

• kona

Árnason, Kristján (2011) The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese (The Phonology of the World's Languages), Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 87

• kvinnen m

kvinna f

1. definite feminine singular of kvinne

kvinna f

1. definite feminine singular of kvinne

Back-formed from kvenna, kvinna, the genitive plural of kona. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

kvinna f (genitive kvinnu)

1. alternative form of kona

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kvinna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse kvenna, from genitive plural of kona (“wife, woman”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

kvinna f

1. a woman

• Swedish: kvinna

• qvinna (obsolete since 1889)
• qwinna (obsolete)

From Old Swedish kvinna, from Runic Swedish kuino, from Old Norse kvæna, from kván (“wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Cognate with English queen.

• IPA^(key): /²kvɪnːˌa/

• Audio (Gotland); “en kvinna”:

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• Rhymes: -²ɪna

kvinna c

1. a woman

   män och kvinnor

   men and women

• man (with respect to gender)

• kvinna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kvinna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kvinna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)