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Re: Cyninglic (was: RE: Runes (was: Re: RV: Old English))

From:yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...>
Date:Sunday, April 2, 2000, 10:58
And wrote:
> Dan (Dan): > > And wrote: > > > Vasili Gsrernov (Basileus): > > > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:11:00 +0100, hæfþ yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...> > > > > gewriten: > > > > > > > > >Se cyning (Basileus) haþ writen > > > > > > > > Se Cyninglic (Basilius), probably... or Þéodenlic ;) > > > > > > What would modern English reflexes of _Cyninglic_ and _Þéodenlic_ > > > be? Is _king_ regularly from _cyning_, so _Kingly_ (boringly), or > > > might we instead have something like _Kinningly_? > > > > If king was very rarely used, yes. But king from cyninglic is by
haplology.
> > Isn't _kingly_ from _cyninglic_ and _king_ from _cyning_? At any rate, if > the haplology is irregular, as haplology generally is, then the *name* > _Cyninglic_ might be exempt, in which case we might render
_Vasily/Basileus_
> as _Kinningly_. No?
Good point, but out of pure orthographical aesthetics, I think Kinningly looks ugly.
> --And.
Dan