Etymology

cunt

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Today it means: The female genitalia, especially the vulva. Full definition →

Middle English cunte ← Old English *cunte ← Proto-West Germanic *kuntā
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cunt · noun, verb, adjective1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷḗn?
  2. Proto-Germanic*kuntǭ
  3. Proto-West Germanic*kuntā
  4. Old English*cunte
  5. Middle Englishcunte
  6. English todaycunt

From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).

CuNT · noun2

* (copper nanotube): Cu (“copper”) + NT (“nanotube”)

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