Noun: cwen
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | cwēn |
| Plural | cwēne; cwēna |
Genitive
| Singular | cwēne |
| Plural | cwēna |
Dative
| Singular | cwēne |
| Plural | cwēnum |
Accusative
| Singular | cwēn; cwēne |
| Plural | cwēne; cwēna |
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm... (Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with much honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.)
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Engla cwēn (The queen of England)
Etymology
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. See: Old Norse Nouns '
kvæn', Gothic Nouns '
𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γυνή'.
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