quean
‘a contemptible woman’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. quene ‘a woman; a low-born woman’ < O.E. cwene ‘woman, female serf, hussy, prostitute’ (as in portcwene ‘public woman) < Proto-G. kwenon < kveen < gwen- < Tamil īṉ
quean
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'