PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. The inherited ruler title is older; the game-piece and preeminence senses are semantic extensions documented in the modern entry.
/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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Separates later semantic branches from the inherited monarch title.
Modern senses and etymologyThe dossier preserves later semantic branches without projecting them backward into Proto-Germanic social life.