Middle English records early kining and cining beside syncopated king forms: the unstressed medial vowel is lost, Old English y is unrounded toward i in Middle English, and k spelling disambiguates the inherited hard consonant.
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king / kyng
king or monarch
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedOld English · Old English · monarch titlecyning
king, ruler, or emperor
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The inherited title for a king or monarch remains stable through the contraction.
Old English into Middle English.
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King n. — Middle English DictionaryForms and Etymology: OE cyning
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Records early kining and cining, syncopated king forms, and direct Old English ancestry.
Kuning — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen VColumns 884–885: ae. cyning, me. king
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently aligns the Old and Middle English forms.
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