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

[urba_kestutis]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> 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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