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cneos and cyn, gecynd (race, or generation), with the 

 noteworthy compounds, Gecynde-lim, womb, or lit. kin- 

 limb ; cyne-lilaford, prince, but originally without doubt 

 the kin-chief or elected leader of the group, the prototype 

 of the tribal -father ; cyne-lond, cynerice, cynepeod, king- 

 dom, but literally the kin-land, the common property of 

 the kin-group, which only later passed from the kin to the 

 king. O.H.G. gives us kunni for kin, and O.N. kundr for 

 son and kund for daughter (see p. 118 ftn.) Konemdcis 

 one of the earliest words for blood relationship, but this is 

 primitively a relationship of the womb, and kin and kinship 

 are given by kunnischaft,kunniling (neighbour), and kun- 

 nizala all marking the woman as the first idea of any 

 relationship at all. In a sentence, the woman, in virtue 

 of her womb-right, is head of the kin, the queen or chief 

 of the household a position of power, blood-relation, and 

 sex well illustrated in the use of the word queen in queen- 

 bee. If we try to find a male correlative to kone, we 

 are thrown back on kone-man, kon-ing, koning, kun-ing, 

 konig, and king. The words convey no marital relation 

 to the kone, no sense of authority or power (not the "can- 

 man " of Carlyle !), but simply the conception of one 

 belonging or attached to the kone. The derivation of 

 king, konig is sometimes asserted to be the man of kin or 

 race. I would draw attention to the Norse kone (O.N. 

 qvon and qvdn) woman, and O.N. konr, chief, king, 

 relative, which occurs as well as the more familiar 

 forms konungr, kdngr, king. The O.H.G. spelling is 

 kuning or chuninck, as a rule, and of kone, generally 

 quena, but chone, chena, both occur. M.H.G. gives 

 us kon and kone for woman, wife, and generally ktinig 



