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

[Michael Erwin]

I still think 'king' comes from 'kin' or 'kuni' for the Gothic.

Of course one C-Gmc root can yield two Gothic words, as with mawi and  
magatha, (or two English words, as with churn and quern, shirt and  
skirt, ship and skiff, etc.) so that kindins and *kunig-- might come  
from the same root. IIRC, mawi and magatha reflect changing word- 
formation patterns within C-Gmc and Gothic, while shirt and skirt  
reflect internal borrowing among Germanic languages.


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