Was the word "kunig/kunigas/kunigur" a gothic word?

[ualarauans]

Hails, Daweid

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, David Kiltz <derdron at ...> wrote:
>
> On 18.09.2006, at 08:27, michelsauvant wrote:
> 
> > In his message Ualarauans wrote "kunendzi" for Old Church 
Slavonic.
> > And you wrote "k'nenz'"
> 
> *_kune.gu_ is a reconstructed Proto-Slavonic form (both _u_'s are
> short, e nasalised).
> The attested OCS form is _kune.dzi_ (both _u_ and _i_ short, _e_
> nasalised).

Yes, that's exactly what I meant with my [kunendzi] fearing to see 
weird symbols and characters in place of a more accurate kÚnędzÜ. 
Ach, they come again...

> This word exhibits the so-called 3. or 'progressive'
> palatalisation typical of OCS. Cf. also _pêne.dzi_ 'money' < (Low)
> German _penning_. Contrast that with _kune.gyn'i_ 'lady, duchess'.

The 3rd palatalization doesn't normally come in effect before the 
following Ú (reduced [u]). It should have been *kÚne.gÚ resp. 
*pEne.gÚ. It's either the influence of oblique cases (Gen. 
kÚne.dz'a, pEne.dz'a) or a change of stem vowel a > ja.

Ualarauans






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