Re: [tied] kuningas <-> knyaz

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
>
> > Germanic kuningaz gave origin to Slavic kunezi and Lithuanian

kuningas.

>
> Actually, the Proto-Slabic form is *kUne,ZI. As for the Baltic

forms, Lith.=

> ku`nigas (-ig-, not *-ing-), Latv. ku`ngs, Pruss. konagis

(<*ku`negIs<*ku`n=

> egas) are not Proto-Germanisms (as the Slavic form). but rather <

Middle Hig=

> h German ku''nic, kunec.
>
> Sergei

As I recall, Saxo uses "knes" of Wend princes.

Torsten