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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kinnu
Proto-West Germanic
Alternative forms
- *kinni
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kinnuz.
Noun
*kinnu f[1]
- chin, jaw
Inflection
u-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *kinnu | |
Genitive | *kinnō | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *kinnu | *kinniwi, *kinnō |
Accusative | *kinnu | *kinnū |
Genitive | *kinnō | *kinniwō |
Dative | *kinniwi, *kinnō | *kinnum |
Instrumental | *kinnu | *kinnum |
Reconstruction notes
Continental West Germanic forms derived from secondary ja-stem *kinni.[2]
Descendants
- Old English: ċinn f, ċin, ċyn
- Middle English: chyn, chin, chinne, chynne, shyne, schyn
- English: chin
- Scots: chin, chyn
- Middle English: chyn, chin, chinne, chynne, shyne, schyn
- Old Frisian: zin
- Old Saxon: kinni n
- Middle Low German: kinne, kin
- Low German: Kinn
- → Old Frisian: kin, ken
- West Frisian: kin
- Middle Low German: kinne, kin
- Old Dutch: kinni n
- Middle Dutch: kinne
- Dutch: kin
- Afrikaans: kin
- Negerhollands: kin
- → Papiamentu: kenchi, kinnetje, kintsje (from the diminutive)
- Limburgish: kin
- → German: Kiene (dialectal)
- Dutch: kin
- Middle Dutch: kinne
- Old High German: kinni n, chinni
- Middle High German: kinne, kin
- Alemannic German: Chimmi
- German: Kinn
- Luxembourgish: Kënn
- Yiddish: קין (kin)
- Middle High German: kinne, kin
- →? Old French: (“teeth (of a dog or baby)”) [1174, Lorraine, France] (alternatively from or influenced in meaning by chien (“dog”)[3])
- Anglo-Norman: quenne, quienne
- Old French: quenne
- Old Northern French: cane
- Picard Old French: kenne
- ⇒ Old French: *quenotte
- Bourbonnais-Berrichon: quenaude
- French: quenotte
- ⇒ French: queniate
- Picard: kenotte
- → Occitan: quenote
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 204: “PWGmc *kinn(u) ‘jaw’”
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Kinn”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 370: “Mit nn aus -nw- in archaischen obliquen Formen des u-Stammes und mit späterer Umbildung zu einem neutralen ja-Stamm”
- Sainéan, L. (1906), “Les noms romans du chien et leurs applications métaphoriques”, in Mémoires de la Soc. de ling.