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scholarly articlemeli-kuningaz
Nota sull’etimologia di germanico *kuningaz
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Marcello Meli
- YEAR
- 1996
- PUBLISHER
- Linguistica e Filologia · Università degli Studi di Padova Research Archive
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- scholarly article
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANK 20GRADE Acontext
King is a kin-word, not a royal word.
English king continues Old English cyning and Germanic *kuninga-, built on the kin or lineage base *kunja-. Latin rēx, royal, and regal belong to a different root—and even “leader of the kin” overstates the disputed original Germanic sense.
*ǵenh₁-
*ǵenh₁- → *gn̥ə-yo- → *kunja- → *kuninga- → cyning → king / kyng → king
Repository abstractPrevents the kin-based reveal from hardening into one uncontested original social gloss.
king dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
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openchallengesproposed
What did Proto-Germanic *kuninga- originally designate?
The kin-base derivation is secure in the reviewed sources, but its exact social interpretation is not. EWA gives a member of a noble lineage; Meli proposes one who brings distinction to his lineage. “Leader of the kin” is not a neutral translation of either analysis.
Repository abstractExplicitly rejects the noble-lineage gloss and proposes one who illustrates or distinguishes the lineage.
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EDGE 1047contextestablished
*kuninga- → *kunja-
Proto-Germanic → Proto-Germanic · derivation
- SOUND
- Proto-Germanic *kuninga- is formed on *kunja- with the reconstructed suffix *-inga-/-unga-; this main-spine edge follows the lexical base while a parallel graph edge preserves the suffix.
- MEANING
- A lineage or kin term produces a person-title. EWA glosses the original formation as a member of a noble lineage; Meli proposes one who brings distinction to the lineage.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Rosemarie Lühr · Marcello Meli
Repository abstractPublishes a competing original semantic interpretation while retaining the lineage analysis.
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