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

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "urba_kestutis" <urba_kestutis at ...> 
wrote:
>
> ... 
> In lithuanian (neighbors of goths) there is the word kunas 
> (pronounciatin is like eng. koonus) with a meaning BODY and  latvian 
> language has the simmilarity. So, Gothic 'kuni' is possibly related 
> to  lithuanian kunas, because 'kuni' has the meaning from the same 
> body, too but in prussian there is no koonas but kermenis. How to 
> explain this puzzle?
>

Hi, Urba,

The Gothic woerd _kuni_ "clan, tribe, race, generation" is cognate with 
other Germanic words like Old High German _chunni_, 





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