Queene
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Queene
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German quēne (“old woman, hag”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”). The sense probably developed from “barren cow” (cf. Dutch kween, also attested in Low German dialects) via “calfless cow” to “young cow”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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 [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.
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