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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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king OE.
cyning, later
cyng,
cing = OFris.
kin-,
kon-,
kening, OS., OHG.
kuning (Du.
koning, G.
könig), :- Gmc. *
kuningaz (ON.
konungr has a var. form of the suffix), prob. f. *
kunjam KIN + *
-iṇgaz -ING2, as if ‘scion of the (noble) race’.
Hence
kingdom †kingship OE.; realm XIII. OE.
cyningdōm.
kingfisher XVI (†
king's- XV). In comb. applied to large or principal features, as
king-bolt (XIX),
-post (XVIII).
king's evil scrofula, for which the sovereign ‘touched’. XIV.
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