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Where does the last name king come from?
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“Another common Old English suffix was ‘-kin’ pronounced ‘cynn’ in Old English. This was literally the word kin meaning a relative. It had produced the word cyning meaning leader of the family, and cyning eventually became our modern word king.” From The History of English Podcast
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