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King n. — Middle English Dictionary

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Robert E. Lewis et al. · Frances McSparran et al.
YEAR
2001
PUBLISHER
University of Michigan Library
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historical dictionary
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EDGE 1044contextestablished

king → king / kyng

Present-Day English → Middle English · historical continuation

SOUND
The Middle English spelling king survives into Present-Day English; later phonetic and orthographic standardization is not compressed into one unsupported sound law.
MEANING
The monarch sense continues while preeminence, chess, card, checkers, and verbal extensions accumulate.
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Merriam-Webster Editors · Middle English Dictionary Editors
Entry forms and sense 1a

Documents medieval king forms and the monarch sense.

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king / kyng → cyning

Middle English → Old English · inheritance

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Middle English records early kining and cining beside syncopated king forms: the unstressed medial vowel is lost, Old English y is unrounded toward i in Middle English, and k spelling disambiguates the inherited hard consonant.
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The inherited title for a king or monarch remains stable through the contraction.
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Middle English Dictionary Editors
Forms and Etymology: OE cyning

Records early kining and cining, syncopated king forms, and direct Old English ancestry.

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king / kyng

Middle English Dictionary lexical record for king

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