English
queeny
From queen + -y.
Formed from queen + -y
Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s ‘woman’
Proto-Germanic *kwēniz ‘wife’
Proto-West Germanic *kwāni ‘woman’
Old English cwēn
Middle English quene ‘a queen’
English queen
Today it means
adj Like a (royal) queen; queenly; queenish.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “queeny”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / queeny