Yoïn van Spijk

The word ‘queen’ is distantly related to the first part of ‘gynaecology’ and the second part of ‘misogyny’.

It’s also related to Norwegian ‘kone’ (wife) and ‘kvinne’ (woman), but they’re not full cognates.

While ‘queen’ comes from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (wife), ‘kone’ and ‘kvinne’ stem from *kwenōn (woman). In English, this became the disparaging – and now archaic – word ‘quean’ (slʋt).

May 10 at 6:22pmWeb
Show threadBianca1d ago
@yvanspijk altijd leuk om je toots te lezen en wat te leren, dank!
Show threadYoïn van Spijk1d ago
@ZuilenV Wat leuk om te horen! Dank je wel!
Show threadaburka 🫣1d ago
@yvanspijk wait, "queen" and "quean" were homophones? That seems like a dangerous ambiguity, but maybe some vowel shifts made it distinguishable?
Show threadYoïn van Spijk1d ago
@aburka Yes, they were indeed. The vowel shift that merged 'meet' and 'meat' turned them into homophones in most dialects.
Show threadBob Downie1d ago
@yvanspijk I think quean is a variation of spelling of quine, which in the Doric Scots of NE Scotland means young woman or girl. Quine is by no means disparaging, rather a simple description.
Show threadYoïn van Spijk1d ago
@geomannie Yes, that Scots word is also mentioned in the infographic. It branched off from English 'quean' in Middle English.
Show threadEsther Payne 1d ago

@yvanspijk in Doric Scots we say quine which means girl. So it's interesting to see the roots

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/quine_n_1

Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: quine n 1

Show threadYoïn van Spijk1d ago
@onepict Yes, it's a sister word of 'quean' (included in the graphic). 😊
Show threadEsther Payne 1d ago
@yvanspijk I'd always wondered where it comes from. 😊
Show threadJens Jäger1d ago
@yvanspijk Is “gynaecologia” Neo-Latin or Greek? The components are all Greek but it was possibly used in Latin, so the answer may be “both” 😅
Show threadYoïn van Spijk1d ago
@JensJot It was invented as a Latin word, but indeed, the components stem from Greek.
Show threadnojhan, Cassandre de l’analyse systémique1d ago
@yvanspijk I have a rather technical question: do you encode your diagrams as semantic knowledge graphs? Or do you make them directly as raw graphics?
Show threadYoïn van Spijk1d ago
@nojhan I'm afraid I don't understand your question. I export them as a png file in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Show threadJohann Dr.EO1d ago
@yvanspijk @nojhan @yvanspijk Well, that answers the (interesting) question, in a way :-)
I guess the point was to ask whether those diagrams were designed in a machine-readable format that would allow the underlying information to be used at a larger scale. The structure I see in there would perfectly match the data structure formats we (computer science researchers) call "SKG", or "ontologies". Such sets of "graphs" would ease asking questions like "what’s the common ancestor between those two words", for instance, a computer program being able to find the answer almost instantly. Of course, someone would have had to take care to create the machine-readable data first, which is the hard part.