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Old Norse
- Runic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kuningaz (“king”). Cognate with Old English cyning, Old Frisian kening, kining, Old Saxon cuning, Old Dutch kuning, Old High German kuning.
Pronunciation
- (9th century West Norse) IPA(key): /ˈkonunɡɹ̝/,
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈkonunɡr/
Noun
konungr m (genitive konungs, plural konungar)
- a king
- Heimskringla, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 345:
- Egill konungr spurði þetta, ok fór at leita þeira með liði sínu
- King Egil heard of this and began to seek them with his men
Declension
Declension of konungr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Terms derived from konungr
Descendants
References
- “konungr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- konungr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- konungr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.