✶kwēn n. “person, one, (some)body”

✶kwēn n. “person, one, (some)body”

References ✧ WJ/360, 375, 392, 407, 416

Glosses

• “person (m. and f.), one, (some)body” ✧ WJ/360
• “speaking, speaker, one using vocal language” ✧ WJ/392 (kwene/kwēn)
• “user of articulate sounds” ✧ WJ/416 (kwene)

Variations

• kwēn ✧ WJ/360; WJ/407
• kwen ✧ WJ/375
• kwene/kwēn ✧ WJ/392
• kwene ✧ WJ/416

Related

• LAMA “(vocal) sounds that were confused or inarticulate” may be compared to kwene “user of articulate sounds” ✧ WJ/416

Inflections

-kwen	suffix		✧ WJ/360
kwenī	suffix	“persons, (some) people”	✧ WJ/360

Element In

• ✶rokokwēn “horseman, rider” ✧ WJ/407 (roko-kwēn)
• T. aipen “if anybody, whoever” ✧ WJ/375
• T. ilpen “everybody” ✧ WJ/375

Derivations

• < √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ WJ/360 (KWENE); WJ/392 (KWENE)
  • < kwene < KWENE ✧ WJ/360
  • < √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392

Derivatives

• > Ad. *bên “servant, ?person”
  • ⇒ Ad. Êru-bênî “Servants of God” ✧ SD/341; SD/357
• > Q. quén “person, individual, man or woman; one, somebody” ✧ WJ/361
  • ⇒ 12 compounds
• > S. pen² “one, somebody, anybody” ✧ WJ/362
  • ⇒ 11 compounds
• > T. †pen “man, *somebody, *someone” ✧ WJ/362; WJ/375
  • ⇒ T. arpen “noble (man)” ✧ WJ/375
    • ⇒ T. arpenia “*noble” ✧ WJ/375