Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kinnuz

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From earlier *kinwuz, *kenwuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu- (“jaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkin.nuz/

Noun

*kinnuz f

1. cheek
2. chin, jaw

Inflection

u-stemDeclension of *kinnuz (u-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*kinnuz	*kinniwiz
vocative	*kinnu	*kinniwiz
accusative	*kinnų	*kinnunz
genitive	*kinnauz	*kinniwǫ̂
dative	*kinniwi	*kinnumaz
instrumental	*kinnū	*kinnumiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *kinnu, *kinni
  • 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
    • Middle Low German: kinne, kin
      • Low German: Kinn
      • → Old Frisian: kin, ken
        • West Frisian: 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)
  • Old High German: kinni n, chinni
    • Middle High German: kinne, kin
      • Alemannic German: Chimmi
      • German: Kinn
      • Luxembourgish: Kënn
      • Yiddish: קין (kin)
  • →? Old French: (“teeth (of a dog or baby)”) [1174, Lorraine, France] (alternatively from or influenced in meaning by chien (“dog”))

    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
• Old Norse: kinn
  • Icelandic: kinn
  • Faroese: kinn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kinn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kinn
  • Old Swedish: kin
    • Swedish: kind
  • Danish: kind
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌿𐍃 (kinnus)