Queene

See also: queene and Queen E

English

Proper noun

Queene

1. 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkveːnə/

Noun

Queene f (genitive Queene, plural Queenen)

1. (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 [sic] eine Queene von der Weide in Gesellschaft des Inquisiten Hinrichs entwendet?

     [The defendant should be asked] whether he had not likewise stolen a heifer from Hinrich Hüllen’s pasture in Steinau in the presence of [fellow] defendant Hinrichs.

Declension

Declension of Queene [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Queene	die	Queenen
genitive	einer	der	Queene	der	Queenen
dative	einer	der	Queene	den	Queenen
accusative	eine	die	Queene	die	Queenen