"cynning" =? king

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:03 PM -0400 6/6/11, Dave Wilton wrote:
>And it's included in the OED under the entry for "king." If you put "cyning"
>into the OED Online's search function it will take you directly to the
>"king" entry.
>

and it's cognate with "kin" < OE cyn and "kind" < OE cynd  (and with "cognate")

LH

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>The OE word has one n -- cyning.  It was probably pronounced [kYnINg]
>On Jun 6, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>  "The Cynning (King) has the highest group memberlevel that allows him
>>  all the other privileges as well as the ability to delete content
>>  from the group area and ban members from the group."
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>>  From http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/group/position/32409
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>>  The page is titled
>>  "<http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Group/32408>Angelcynn: The History
>>  of Anglo-Saxon England
>>  The history of the Germanic kingdoms of England, from the Saxon
>>  Advent to the Norman Conquest."
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>>  (1)  Not in OED, even in a quotation.  Is it an English word?  Old
>>  English?  There is no headword even for "cyn" (although that seems to
>>  be an O.E> spelling for "kin") or for "cynn".
>>
>>  (2)  How the devil is it pronounced?  sinning? kinning? cunning?
>>
>>  Joel
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