Words that come from Proto-Germanic “kwenǭ”

124 words across 32 languages descend from Proto-Germanic kwenǭ — including queen, Queenie, quean, queenship, queening, queenless, queendom, queenlike.

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English (34)

Icelandic (16)

Danish (9)

Norwegian Nynorsk (9)

Faroese (8)

Old Norse (8)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Swedish (4)

French (3)

Gothic (2)

Norman (2)

Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Old Danish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Pite Sami (1)

Burmese (1)

Scots (1)

Old English (1)

Spanish (1)

Thai (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Middle English (1)

German (1)

Tagalog (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)