Re: [tied] Re: Kuningaz

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:02:59 -0800 (PST), george knysh
<gknysh@...> wrote:

>
>--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>> <kunigas> may be a Middle High German borrowing, as
>> Sergei himself pointed out. The Slavic word
>> (*kUne,dzI < *kUnINgU) is no doubt old and directly
>> reflects Germanic *kuningaz.
>
>******GK: Is *kuningaz attested, or reconstructed? I
>checked out a couple of Gothic dictionaries and didn't
>find it there.******

The Gothic for "king" is <þiudans>. Some of the oldest attested forms
are ON <konungr>, OE <cyning>, OHG <kuning>. None quite as
archaic-looking as Finnish <kuningas>, though.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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