kinge
English edit
Noun edit
kinge (plural kinges)
Anagrams edit
Isubu edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
kinge (plural bakinge)
References edit
- Joseph Merrick, Alfred Saker, A Grammar of the Isubu Tongue (1852)
Middle English edit
Noun edit
kinge
- Alternative form of king
- 1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse[1]:
- And than we wyll begynne at the pawne whiche standeth to fore the rooke on the right side of the kinge for as moche as this pawne apperteyneth to serue the vicaire or lieutenant of the kynge and other officers vnder hym of necessaryes of vitayll/
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English kynge, from Old English cyning, from Proto-West Germanic *kuning.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kiːn/
- Homophones: keen, keeine
Noun edit
kinge
- king
- 1927, “THE FORTH MAN'S GRACE AFTER A SCANTY DINNER”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 137, line 4:
- God save ye Kinge, hev awaa ye platter."
- [God save the King, heave away the platter.]
References edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 137