cwenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• IPA: /kweːn/

名詞

cwēn f

1. queen (a ruling female monarch or a king's wife)
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     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.

   Engla cwēn

   The queen of England

2. princess (a king's daughter)
3. woman
4. wife

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

同意語

• cyninge (rare word for queen)
• friþuwebbe (figurative/kenning, literally “peace-weaver”)
• hlǣfdīġe (“noble woman, lady, queen”)
• wīf (the usual word for woman/wife)

派生語

関連する語

• cwene (“woman, wife”)

派生した語

• Middle English: quene, qwene, cwene, queene, quen, qween, qweene, queyne, qwenne, qwhene, kuene, quiene, queen
  • English: queen (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: queen, wheen
  • Yola: queen