See cwen on Wiktionary
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cwēnfugol"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cwēnhierde"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "Cwēnland"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "dryhtcwēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ealdcwēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "ealdra cwēna spell"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "folccwēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gūþcwēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "portcwēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "rihtæþelcwēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "þēodcwēn"
}
],
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "quene"
},
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: quene, qwene, cwene, queene, quen, qween, qweene, queyne, qwenne, qwhene, kuene, quiene, queen\nEnglish: queen (see there for further descendants)\nScots: queen, wheen\nYola: queen"
}
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*kwāni",
"4": "",
"5": "woman, wife"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kwāni (“woman, wife”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "gem-pro",
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},
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"name": "inh"
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{
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},
{
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"1": "osx",
"2": "quān"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon quān",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "kvæn"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse kvæn",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "γυνή"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro",
"2": "*žena"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Slavic *žena",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "ben"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish ben",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From earlier cwœ̄n ← *kwœ̄ni ← *kwōni ← *kwą̄ni, from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni (“woman, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Cognate with Old Saxon quān, Old Norse kvæn, Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ), Proto-Slavic *žena, and Old Irish ben.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cwēn",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-decl-noun-i-f",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēnum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
}
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"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
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"g2": "",
"g3": "",
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"head2": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "cwēn f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
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"head": "cwēn"
},
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},
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"2": "cwēne,cwēna",
"3": "cwēn,cwēne",
"4": "cwēne,cwēna",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "woman, wife",
"word": "cwene"
}
],
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"_dis": "65 12 12 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 6 6 6",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
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"parents": [
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"Female people",
"Family",
"Female",
"People",
"Gender",
"Human",
"Biology",
"Psychology",
"Sociology",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Social sciences",
"Fundamental",
"Society"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
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"People",
"Gender",
"Human",
"Biology",
"Psychology",
"Sociology",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Social sciences",
"Fundamental",
"Society"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "91 3 3 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "ang",
"name": "Monarchy",
"orig": "ang:Monarchy",
"parents": [
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"High society",
"Government",
"Society",
"Politics",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"english": "The queen of England",
"text": "Engla cwēn",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"queen (a ruling female monarch or a king's wife)"
],
"id": "en-cwen-ang-noun-DuOIu16e",
"links": [
[
"queen",
"queen"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"princess (a king's daughter)"
],
"id": "en-cwen-ang-noun-QPTy9F~N",
"links": [
[
"princess",
"princess"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"woman"
],
"id": "en-cwen-ang-noun-zy5b~x7w",
"links": [
[
"woman",
"woman"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"wife"
],
"id": "en-cwen-ang-noun-nVKjyOTW",
"links": [
[
"wife",
"wife"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kweːn/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "rare word for queen",
"word": "cyninge"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "peace-weaver; figurative/kenning",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "friþuwebbe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "noble woman, lady, queen",
"word": "hlǣfdīġe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "the usual word for woman/wife",
"word": "wīf"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cwǣn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cuēn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"Anglian"
],
"word": "cwœ̄n"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cœ̄n — Northumbrian"
}
],
"word": "cwen"
}
{
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"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English feminine nouns",
"Old English i-stem nouns",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English nouns",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"ang:Female family members",
"ang:Female people",
"ang:Monarchy"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cwēnfugol"
},
{
"word": "cwēnhierde"
},
{
"word": "Cwēnland"
},
{
"word": "cwēnlīċ"
},
{
"word": "Cwēnsǣ"
},
{
"word": "dryhtcwēn"
},
{
"word": "ealdcwēn"
},
{
"word": "ealdra cwēna spell"
},
{
"word": "folccwēn"
},
{
"word": "gūþcwēn"
},
{
"word": "portcwēn"
},
{
"word": "rihtæþelcwēn"
},
{
"word": "þēodcwēn"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "quene"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: quene, qwene, cwene, queene, quen, qween, qweene, queyne, qwenne, qwhene, kuene, quiene, queen\nEnglish: queen (see there for further descendants)\nScots: queen, wheen\nYola: queen",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: quene, qwene, cwene, queene, quen, qween, qweene, queyne, qwenne, qwhene, kuene, quiene, queen\nEnglish: queen (see there for further descendants)\nScots: queen, wheen\nYola: queen"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*kwāni",
"4": "",
"5": "woman, wife"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kwāni (“woman, wife”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*kwēniz"
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"name": "inh"
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "kvæn"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse kvæn",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "γυνή"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro",
"2": "*žena"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Slavic *žena",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "ben"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish ben",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From earlier cwœ̄n ← *kwœ̄ni ← *kwōni ← *kwą̄ni, from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni (“woman, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Cognate with Old Saxon quān, Old Norse kvæn, Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ), Proto-Slavic *žena, and Old Irish ben.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cwēn",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēne",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cwēnum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
}
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"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
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"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "cwēn f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"head": "cwēn"
},
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"name": "ang-noun"
}
],
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"1": "cwēn"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun-i-f"
},
{
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"2": "cwēne,cwēna",
"3": "cwēn,cwēne",
"4": "cwēne,cwēna",
"5": "cwēne",
"6": "cwēna",
"7": "cwēne",
"8": "cwēnum",
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}
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}
],
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"queen (a ruling female monarch or a king's wife)"
],
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"queen",
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"glosses": [
"princess (a king's daughter)"
],
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"princess",
"princess"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"woman"
],
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[
"woman",
"woman"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"wife"
],
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[
"wife",
"wife"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kweːn/"
}
],
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{
"english": "rare word for queen",
"word": "cyninge"
},
{
"english": "peace-weaver; figurative/kenning",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "friþuwebbe"
},
{
"english": "noble woman, lady, queen",
"word": "hlǣfdīġe"
},
{
"english": "the usual word for woman/wife",
"word": "wīf"
},
{
"word": "cwǣn"
},
{
"word": "cuēn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Anglian"
],
"word": "cwœ̄n"
},
{
"word": "cœ̄n — Northumbrian"
}
],
"word": "cwen"
}
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