PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. King is inherited through Old English cyning from a Germanic kin formation. Latin rēx belongs to the separate straight, direct, and rule family. Translation equivalence does not create ancestry.
/kɪŋ/ · noun · verb
An inherited English title continuing Old English cyning and reconstructed Germanic *kuninga-, a formation built on the Germanic kin or lineage base.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Places English king under the birth-and-family root.
genə-: king and kin under Germanic *kunjamPublishes king’s Germanic lineage.
Columns 884–885: English and Germanic title familyPublishes the separate Latin ruler formation.
reg-: lengthened king grade and Latin rēxThe dossiers remain in separate lexical families and are joined only by a sourced historical-context link.