-
Germanic kingship is a
thesis regarding the role of
kings among the pre-Christianized
Germanic tribes of the
Migration period (c. 300–700 AD) and Early...
- the time, but the word was
originally derived from the
common Germanic *
kuningaz (king).
Feminine forms of the word may be
divided into two groups: "Princess"...
- to
Finnish Kuningas and
Lithuanian Kunigas, both from Proto-Germanic *
Kuningaz; in
archaic contex the
Finnish word
simply had the
meaning of "leader"...
-
tribe with
ships that had a prow at each end (longships).
Which kings (*
kuningaz)
ruled these Suiones is unknown, but
Norse mythology presents a long line...
- Anglo-Saxon cyning,
which in turn is
derived from the
Common Germanic *
kuningaz. The
Common Germanic term was
borrowed into
Estonian and
Finnish at an...
- *hrengaz (later *hringaz) 'ring' (compare
Finnish rengas,
Estonian rõngas), *
kuningaz 'king' (Finnish kuningas), *lambaz 'lamb' (Finnish lammas), *lunaz 'ransom'...
- and
ruhtinas 'sovereign prince, high
ranking nobleman' from
Germanic *
kuningaz and *druhtinaz—they
display a
remarkable tendency towards phonological...
-
juusto "cheese" < *justaz (Old
Norse ostr) Estonian/Finnish
kuningas < *
kuningaz "king" (Old
Norse kunungr, konungr) Estonian/Finnish
lammas "sheep" < *lambaz...
- "race, people"; OHG kind "child"; Ger könig, Dut
koning "king" (< PGmc *
kuningaz = *kunją "kin" + *-ingaz "from,
belonging to") (> OCS kŭnędzĭ "prince";...
- "king") is an old
Finnic word
deriving from the
ancient Germanic word
kuningaz. In the time the
sources were written, "Finland"
mainly referred to the...
