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Where does “Queensland” come from?

Queensland is an English place name combining English Queen with English land, ultimately deriving from Old English land and Proto-Indo-European lendʰ- meaning to stretch or extend.

Ancestry of “Queensland”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishQueen—
2Middle EnglishqueneA queen; Any powerful woman noble; A female...
3Old Englishcwenea woman; inflection of cwēn: ##...
4Old Englishcwēnqueen; woman, wife, queen
5Proto-West Germanickwāniwoman, wife
6Proto-Germanickwēnizwife
7Proto-Indo-Europeangʷḗnwoman
8Proto-Indo-Europeangʷen-woman

Words derived from “Queensland”

  • Queenslander
  • Queensland
  • クイーンズランド
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