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

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "michelsauvant" <michelsauvant at ...> 
wrote:
> ...
> P.S.
> Was the « ku- » in « kuniggs » pronounced like "cool" , or "cut", or 
> german "Kügel", or "core", or "copy", or "coat" or something else? 
> 
> 

As far as I know, the Gothic pronounciation is not known with 
exactitude (it is, after all, a dead language with only written 
records), but most probably the ku- in *kuniggs was pronounced 
phonetically [ku-], that is, unaspirated [k] + short [u] sound (i.e. 
short English "oo" or French "ou"). Of course, this ku- syllable should 
have borne the stress within the word *kuniggs.

Francisc 





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