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

[Francisc Czobor]

Only a small comment:

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at ...> 
wrote:
> ...    
>   Then, on page 135, Section L344, the example is given that seems 
to fit our problem, " Got. qiwans "die lebendigen" -the living- 
yields Old Persian 
>   -chiva- (Old Church Slavonic -zhiv'-). 
> ...   

But the Gothic qiwans (nom. sg. qius) can not be the source of the 
Old Persian and Old Church Slavonic words. In fact, all these come 
from the same Indo-European word *gwi:wo-s "alive" (< root *gwei "to 
live") that yielded also:
Sanskrit: ji:vah
Middle Persian: zhi:wak < OLd Persian ji:va-
Lithuanian: gyvas (y = long [i])
Greek: bios
Latin: vivus
etc.

Francisc






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