QUEEN

Queen means simply and literally "a woman".

In Sanskrit the word जनि (jáni, džani) means a "woman, wife, birth, production, a kind of fragrant plant, mother, life, birthplace"

It sounds very similar to Polish "żeni się" meaning "a man takes a woman for a wife". It also sounds almost exactly the same as Gurani language "ژەنی‎ (žanī)".

If we change Germanic Centum "K" to Satem "S" we get in the result Old Norse: "kona" --> "sona" being equal to Slavic "žona". What is even more interesting is that it also becomes equal to "Centum" Tocharian B word "śana".

K-

Mycenaean Greek: ku-na-ja

Old Swedish: kuna (gen. plur. kvænna)

Middle High German: kun

Danish: kvinde

Faroese: kvinna

Norwegian: kvinna

Old English: cwǣn, cwēn, cwene

Middle English: quene

Scots: quean, quein, quine, quin

English: quean

Old Saxon: quena

Middle Low German: quene

Low German: Quene

Middle Dutch: quene, kone

Dutch: kween

Old High German: quena, chuuena

Middle English: cwen, quene, queen, qwhene, whene

Scots: queen, wheen

English: queen

Old Saxon: quān

German: Queen, Quän

Old Norse: kvæn, kván

Icelandic: kvon

Norwegian: kvån (dialectal)

Old Swedish: -qvæn (in broþorqvæn, sonaqvæn)

Gothic: 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns)

Middle High German: kone, kan, quëne

Old Norse: kona (gen. plur. kvenna, kvinna)

Icelandic: kona (gen. plur. kvenna, kvinna)

Faroese: kona

Norwegian: kone, kona

Westrobothnian: kunu, kvinn-, kvinn’

Old Swedish: kona (gen. plur. kvinna)

Swedish: kåna, kona, kvinna

Danish: kone

Gothic: 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō)

Phrygian: knaika

Old Armenian: կին (kin)

Armenian: կին (kin)

G-

Hittite: gaena ("male relative by marriage, in-law")

Old Prussian: genno (vocative singular)

Ancient Greek: γυνή (gunḗ)

Sanskrit: ग्ना (gnā́)

Middle Breton: gruec

Breton: gwreg

Old Cornish: greg, grueg

Middle Cornish: gurek

Cornish: gwreg

Middle Welsh: gureic, gwreic

Welsh: gwraig

Norman: guênipe, guénipe

French: guenipe

Old Avestan: gənā

Younger Avestan: γənā

Ž-

Belarusian: жана́ (žaná)

Avestan: jaini, jąni (žaini, žąni)

Baluchi: جن‎ (žan)

Gurani: ژەنی‎ (žanī)

Zazaki: cenî (žanī)

Laki: ژەن‎ (žan)

Persian: زن‎ (zan)

Ossetian: зӕнӕг (zænæg) ("children, offspring")

Belarusian: жо́нка (žónka)

Rusyn: жона́ (žoná)

Ukrainian: жона́ (žoná)

Kashubian: żona

Polish: żona

Lower Sorbian: žona

Upper Sorbian: žona

Lithuanian: žmona

Old Church Slavonic: жена ⰶⰵⱀⰰ (žena)

Avestan: jə̄ni (žə̄ni)

Russian: жена́ (žená)

Bulgarian: жена́ (žená)

Macedonian: жена (žena)

Serbo-Croatian: жѐна, žèna

Slovene: žéna

Czech: žena

Polabian: zenă

Slovak: žena

Northern Kurdish: jin (žin)

Central Kurdish: ژن‎ (žin)

Southern Kurdish: ژن‎ (žin)

Ukrainian: жі́нка (žínka)

Zazaki: cinî (žinī)

Pashto: نجلۍ‎ (nžë́lë́y), جونۍ‎ (žunë́y), جنۍ‎ (žnë́y, žinë́y), جلۍ‎ (žilë́y)

S-

Tocharian A: śäṃ

Tocharian B: śana

Latvian: sieva

B-

Old Breton: ban- (ban-leu, ban-doiuis)

Middle Breton: e-ben

Breton: e-ben

Old Cornish: benen

Cornish: ben, benyn

Old Welsh: ben

Welsh: benyw, menyw

Old Irish: ben

Scottish Gaelic: bean

Irish: bean

Manx: ben

Gaulish: bena, bnanom (genitive plural)

W-

Luwian: wanattis

Article published on the 30th of October 2018.