PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Finnish borrowed the word from Germanic. Its conservative shape is evidence for reconstruction, not a donor on the English lineage.
/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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States the borrowing direction.
Column 885: Germanic loan into Finnish kuningasExplains that Finnish preserves a more archaic form useful for reconstructing *kuningaz.
Chapter 4, p. 92 in print; PDF p. 106Finnish is a cited descendant branch from the reconstructed node, never a parent of Old English.