*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 651

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

king, kyng, kining, and cining forms

Middle English records

king DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Disyllabic and syncopated spellings coexist before the contracted king form stabilizes.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The Middle English Dictionary supplies the form inventory but not one single date for the contraction across every dialect.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    King n. — Middle English Dictionary

    Publishes early disyllabic and contracted Middle English forms from Old English cyning.

    Forms and EtymologyAUDIT SOURCE ↗