Mastodawn

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).

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Jens Jäger 1d 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” 😅

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Yoïn van Spijk

@JensJot It was invented as a Latin word, but indeed, the components stem from Greek.