kinge

kinge (plural kinges)

1. Obsolete spelling of king.

• eking

Borrowed from English king.

kinge (plural bakinge)

1. king

• Joseph Merrick, Alfred Saker, A Grammar of the Isubu Tongue (1852)

kinge

1. 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/

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• king

From Middle English kynge, from Old English cyning, from Proto-West Germanic *kuning.

• IPA^(key): /kiːn/
• Homophones: keen, keeine

kinge

1. 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.]

• 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