GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Proto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic · origin family kind noun*kundjaz
origin, birth, family, race, or kind
- SOUND
- Proto-Germanic *kundjaz develops through West Germanic history to Old English cynd / gecynd: the following j conditions fronting of u to y before the glide and ending disappear; the ge- variant is not treated as part of the reconstructed stem.
- MEANING
- A reconstructed origin, birth, family, race, or kind noun continues in Old English nature, origin, generation, offspring, and category senses.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Proto-Germanic comparison through West Germanic prehistory into attested Old English.
- SCHOLAR
- Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Bosworth–Toller Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — American Heritage directly prints the Germanic and Old English forms; Bosworth–Toller supplies the attested Old English inventory. The graph distinguishes lexical inheritance from optional prefixal form.
Indo-European Root genə-supportsgenə-, zero-grade *gn̥ə-t- section: Germanic *kundjaz and Old English cynd / gecynd(e)
Directly aligns the Germanic noun reconstruction with the Old English forms.
ORIGINAL ↗Ge-cynd — Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon DictionarycontextHeadword GE-CYND, forms and examples
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 1063 ↗Supplies the attested Old English variants and meanings.
ORIGINAL ↗