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

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi, Michael and Urba,

Sorry, in my previous message I pushed by error the "Send" button and 
before the message was ready...

What I write bellow is commonly accepted by linguists, and will take 
the examples from two sources:
- Koebler 
(http://www.koeblergerhard.de/germanistischewoerterbuecher/gotischeswo
erterbuch/GOT-K.pdf), and
- Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php)
both these sources reflecting the commonlyaccepted viewpoints.

The Gothic word _kuni_ "clan, tribe, race, generation" is cognate with
other Germanic words like Old High German _chunni_, Old Norse _kyn_, 
Old English _cyn_ > Modern English _kin_, the reconstructed Proto-
Germanic (PG) form being *kunja-n, which comes from the Proto-Indo-
European (PIE) root *g'en- (g' = palatal g) "to produce, to 
generate", with the variants g'en at -, g'ne:-, g'no:- etc. From the 
same PIE root (and with the same Germanic sound shift, g' > k) are 
also Germanic words derived otherwise, like Old English _ge-cynd_ > 
English _kind_, Old English _cynn_ "family", Old Norse kundr "son", 


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "urba_kestutis" <urba_kestutis at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin@> wrote:
> >
> > I still think 'king' comes from 'kin' or  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.
> >
> 
> 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?
>






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