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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English quene, from Old English cwene, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "queans",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "queans",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "quean (plural queans)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "quean (plural queans)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"young woman, girl"
],
"links": [
[
"woman",
"woman"
],
[
"girl",
"girl"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"daughter"
],
"links": [
[
"daughter",
"daughter"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"maidservant"
],
"links": [
[
"maidservant",
"maidservant"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"female sweetheart"
],
"links": [
[
"sweetheart",
"sweetheart"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Shetland Scots"
],
"glosses": [
"A ram incapable of procreation, a hermaphrodite sheep."
],
"links": [
[
"ram",
"ram"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Shetland) A ram incapable of procreation, a hermaphrodite sheep."
],
"tags": [
"Shetland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kwin/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kwen/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kwəin/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Doric"
],
"word": "quine"
}
],
"word": "quean"
}
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