English
Kvenland
Kvenland may come from Old English cwēn ‘queen’.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150cwēn‘queen’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1866Kvenland
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150cwēn‘queen’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1866Kvenland
Earliest quotation: 1866, Charles Kingsley, London: Nelson: “Nurse,” said Torfrida to the old Lapp woman […]…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn ‘woman’
through Old English cwēn ‘queen’
Today it means
name An ancient area of Fennoscandia and Scandinavia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English cwēn / Kvenland