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- prefix obsolete, no longer productive Prefix occuring in words signifying
royalty orkingship .
Etymologies
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From Middle English kyne-, from Old English cyne- ("royal, kingly"), from Proto-Germanic *kuni-, *kuniz (“offspring, generation, race”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵene-, *ǵnē- (“to give birth, be born”). More at kin, kind.
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