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scholarly dictionaryewa-kunni

Kunni — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen V

AUTHOR / EDITOR: Rosemarie Lühr
YEAR: 2014
PUBLISHER: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht · Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
DOI: Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE: scholarly dictionary
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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

Column 892: *kunja-, Old English cynn, and modern kin

Publishes kin’s inherited Germanic lineage.

kin dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING

SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT

DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

resolvedsupportsestablished

Is kin a shortened form of king?

No. Kin continues Old English cynn and Proto-Germanic *kunja-. The Germanic king title *kuninga- is morphologically derived from that lineage base plus a person-forming suffix; neither modern English word directly descends from the other.

Column 892: *kunja- and Old English cynn

Publishes kin’s direct Germanic base.

kin dossier ↗dispute record ↗

resolvedcontextestablished

Is kind simply kin plus a final d?

No. Kin continues Germanic *kunja- from a *-yo- formation, while kind continues noun *kundjaz and adjective *kundiz from a *-t- formation. They are deep cousins that meet at *ǵenh₁-, not one modern word built by adding d to the other.

Column 892: *kunja- and Old English cynn

Independently publishes the kin formation that must not be collapsed into kind.

kind dossier ↗dispute record ↗

CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

EDGE 1048supportsestablished

kunja- → gn̥ə-yo-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND: Proto-Germanic k reflects the Indo-European palatal stop under Grimm’s Law, while the suffixed zero-grade formation develops into Germanic *kunja-.
MEANING: A birth or generation formation develops the lineage, family, and kin field.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Rosemarie Lühr

Column 892: *kunja- < Indo-European suffixed formation

Gives the corresponding laryngeal derivation for the Germanic kin noun.

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EDGE 1049supportsestablished

gn̥ə-yo- → ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-European · derivation

SOUND: The suffixed zero grade suppresses the root e and combines the reduced root with *-yo-; the full oldest root is reconstructed as *ǵenh₁-.
MEANING: Give birth and beget supply derivatives for generation, lineage, family, and tribal groups.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Rosemarie Lühr

Column 892: derivation from verbal root *ǵenh₁- “beget”

Independently derives the kin formation from the birth-and-generation root.

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EDGE 1056contextestablished

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

Column 892: Proto-Germanic *kunja- and Old English cynn

Independently aligns the reconstructed Germanic base with the Old English form.

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