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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kinnu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Alternative forms
  • *kinni

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kinnuz.

Noun

*kinnu f[1]

  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
  • Old Frisian: zin
  • Old Saxon: kinni n
  • Old Dutch: kinni n
  • Old High German: kinni n, chinni
  • →? 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
  1. 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’”
  2. 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”
  3. Sainéan, L. (1906), “Les noms romans du chien et leurs applications métaphoriques”, in Mémoires de la Soc. de ling.
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