Quenington
Major Settlement in the Parish of Quenington
Historical Forms
- Qveninton(e), Queninton(e), Quenintona, Quenyntona 1115–1261 1199 Glouc 1261 ChR 1274 FF 1278 Episc 1434 Cl
- Qyeningtona, Quenyngtona 1282 Cl 1290 Ch 1439 Pat 1587 FF
- Quenton', Queniton' 1221 Ass
- Quenton als. Queinton 1276 Cl
- Cunintone 1221 Plea
- Queenington 1553 Pat
- Quennington 1676 PR 1766 ib
Etymology
'The women's or Cwēn's farmstead', v. cwene , tūn . The medial -in (g )- may represent, as Ekwall suggests, the OE gen.pl. cwenena , but the connective -ing 4 which denotes an association of the person with the place is also possible and we may therefore have the OE fem. pers.n. Cwēn or an OE Cwēna (a hypocoristic form of names like Cwēnburh , Cwēngȳð , etc.) or possibly an appellative (in this case OE cwene ), as we also appear to have in Arlington (Sx 408, cf. EPN i, 294). The spellings of this name and Quinton (254infra ), which in some respects agree, cannot easily be separated, but the later pro- nunciations of the two names show that they are of different origin.