Re: Cyninglic (was: RE: Runes (was: Re: RV: Old English))
From: | yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...> |
Date: | Friday, March 31, 2000, 15:12 |
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.
Dan