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English
Proper noun
Queene
- Obsolete spelling of Queen.
German
Etymology
From Low German Quene, from Middle Low German quēne (“old woman, hag”), from Old Saxon quena, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā (“woman”).
The sense probably developed from “barren cow” (cf. Dutch kween, also attested in Low German dialects) via “calfless cow” to “young cow”. Doublet of Kone, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
Noun
Queene f (genitive Queene, plural Queenen)
- (Northern Germany, archaic or dialectal) heifer (young cow that has not calved)
- Synonym: Färse
1774, Justus Claproth, Ohnmasgeblicher Versuch eines Gesetzbuches – Erste Fortsetzung welche das Criminal-Recht enthält, Frankfurt am Main, page 9:Ob er nicht gleichfalls dem Hinrich Hüllen zu Stenau eine Queene von der Weide in Gesellschaft des Inquisiten Hinrichs entwendet?- whether he had not likewise stolen a heifer from Hinrich Hüllen’s pasture in Steinau in the presence of defendant Hinrichs.
Declension