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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
The dictionary entry was inspected, not any one underlying medieval manuscript. It verifies the reported forms and ancestry, not one earliest physical witness.
Middle EnglishMiddle English dictionary recordestablished
king / kyng
Middle English Dictionary lexical record for king
“king n. … early kining, cining … Etymology: OE cyning”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- MED24299, Forms and Etymology
- REPOSITORY
- Middle English Compendium · University of Michigan Library
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- MED24299
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERking ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1048 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- King n. — Middle English Dictionary
- AUTHOR
- Robert E. Lewis et al. · Frances McSparran et al.
- YEAR
- 2001
- PUBLISHER
- University of Michigan Library
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- med-king