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scholarly articleadamczyk-sievers-law
Old English Reflexes of Sievers’ Law
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Elżbieta Adamczyk
- YEAR
- 2001
- PUBLISHER
- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia · Adam Mickiewicz University Repository
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- scholarly article
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANK 21GRADE Acontext
King comes from the kin family; kin does not come from king.
English kin independently continues Old English cynn and Germanic *kunja-. The royal title is a separate suffixed formation on that lineage base, so the shared letters preserve real morphology without making either modern word the parent of the other.
*ǵenh₁-
*ǵenh₁- → *gn̥ə-yo- → *kunja- → cynn → kin / kyn / kun → kin
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, pp. 64–65Makes the cynn sound history explicit without pretending its exact prehistoric dating is uncontested.
kin dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING
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opensupportsproposed
Can the exact date and phonological staging of cynn be treated as settled?
The main sequence—gemination, umlaut, glide loss, and ending loss—is strongly evidenced, but the exact dating of West Germanic gemination and the analysis and chronology of Sievers’ Law remain debated.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, pp. 61–65Prints the derivation while foregrounding disputes over the law’s scope, dating, and recoverability.
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EDGE 1056supportsestablished
cynn → *kunja-
Old English → Proto-Germanic · inheritance
- SOUND
- The published prehistoric sequence is *kunjō > *kunnjō > *kynni > cynn: West Germanic gemination doubles n before j, i-umlaut fronts u to y, and the glide and ending are lost.
- MEANING
- The Germanic generation, lineage, kind, and family formation continues as the wide Old English cynn semantic field.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Elżbieta Adamczyk · R. D. Fulk · Rosemarie Lühr
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, pp. 64–65, derivation (2b)Prints *kunjan > *kunnjan > *kynni > cynn with gemination, umlaut, and glide loss.
EDGE 1060contextestablished
kunni → *kunja-
Proto-West Germanic → Proto-Germanic · inheritance
- SOUND
- Runic kunni displays West Germanic n-gemination before the historical j of *kunja- and a reduced final vowel.
- MEANING
- The attested form remains in the kin, lineage, and generation field.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- R. D. Fulk · Elżbieta Adamczyk
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, pp. 64–65Prints the parallel *kunjan > *kunnjan stage that explains the runic doubled consonant.
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Old English records
Explains the prehistoric gemination, umlaut, and glide-loss path into cynn.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, pp. 64–65 · broad070
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