queen
You said Greek. It's Norman French.
How that family writes these sounds
| /kw/ | qu-, even in native words the scribes got hold of: queen was cwenqueen, quick, quell |
What gives it away on the page
| qu- where you'd expect cw- | Pure scribal respelling of native words: queen was cwen, quick was cwic.queen, quick, quell |
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