Very strange looking. Slavonic borrows the same word and turns it into Knyaz in Russkiy, Knyagina for a lady.  Our OE for kuningatar was of course Cwen.  The ending -tar/-tär means female form of male dominant titles, but today it is considered in most cases pejorative. For example 'a priest' is pappi and female form is papitar but it is not in any cases used to refer female priest of christian church! It has heathen and sexual load..       Ironically enough, some Finnish 'enthusiasts' claim that many towns in England that take their name from this word, like Quendon or Queniborough, are in fact signs of Finnic Kvaeni having accompanied the AngloSaxons in their invasion of Britannia! :rolleyes:   That is quite common idea among peolpe who have studied these issues. Finnish folklore knows them as kveenit (pl. -it), and it is known that they lived up north. It have been considered to be matriarch society and in Kalevala there are also refers Kingdom of North (Pohjola), where most important figure is Mistress (Pohjan akka). It however might be older FU -> IE loan than anglosaxon period. After all society ruled by females was quite rare and then likely known far too.       Finn in Irish does mean that, but I had something ELSE in mind!  According to Grimm's Law, IE 'P' becomes 'F' in Germanic. If Latin has 'penis' what is Germanic going to have?! :D Fennar, later Finnar, ending up just as Finn, might well mean the 'Well-Hung-People'... I don't know if there's any truth behing this anthropometric assumption, you tell me! ;)   Oh, fancy :D It is known that quality of sperm is excelent in North but I afraid that cold athmosphere has had some effect.. you know shrimp-effect? :o