Runic kunni displays West Germanic n-gemination before the historical j of *kunja- and a reduced final vowel.
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kunni
kin or lineage form
OPEN NODE 1065 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedProto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic · kin lineage base*kunja-
lineage, family, kin, descent, or people
OPEN NODE 1051 ↗01
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The attested form remains in the kin, lineage, and generation field.
Probably fourth or fifth century, with the wider change dated less precisely.
R. D. Fulk · Elżbieta Adamczyk
established — The runic form is collateral evidence for the sound development, not the direct parent of Old English cynn.
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesSection 6.15, p. 128; PDF p. 144
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Identifies Runic kunni as a fourth- or fifth-century witness to West Germanic gemination and equates it with Old English cynn.
Old English Reflexes of Sievers’ LawStudia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, pp. 64–65
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Prints the parallel *kunjan > *kunnjan stage that explains the runic doubled consonant.
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