*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 654

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

*kunja- through geminated *kunnj-

Proto-Germanic and West Germanic linguistic horizon

kin DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The lineage formation develops West Germanic consonant gemination; Runic kunni makes the doubled n visible before Old English records.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
uncertain
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The broad interval brackets reconstructed development and a fourth- or fifth-century runic witness; it does not assign one exact year to every sound change.

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

    Kunni — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen V

    Publishes the reconstructed Germanic form and comparative family.

    Column 892: Proto-Germanic *kunja- and Germanic cognatesAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

    Dates Runic kunni probably to the fourth or fifth century and identifies it as evidence for gemination.

    Section 6.15, p. 128; PDF p. 144AUDIT SOURCE ↗