Early Saxon cyning conversion

[irregularwars]

Just a teaser - a converted Pendraken Late Roman personality to lead my new Saxon warband.

http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/10mm-saxon-cyning.html

[Steve J]

Nice . I'm planning on doing some conversions for my Saxons, but this will most likely involve removing crests etc.

[Techno]

Like it !!
Cheers - Phil.

[Hertsblue]

It's amazing how much difference a few surgically-altered figures can make to the look of an army. But I did originally read the title as "Early Saxon crying conversion. Must get myself a new pair of reading glasses! 

[mollinary]

It's amazing how much difference a few surgically-altered figures can make to the look of an army. But I did originally read the title as "Early Saxon crying conversion. Must get myself a new pair of reading glasses! 

Funnily enough I read it as "cyning".  Unfortunately, I still haven't a clue what it means!

Mollinary

[Steve J]

Unfortunately, I still haven't a clue what it means!

The answer is on his Blog . At least I learnt something useful today.

[OldenBUA]

Pronounced with a hard 'c' (i.e. 'k') and a double o you get 'kooning'. Then the relationship with 'koning'/'König'/'king' will be more readily seen.

And yes, a good conversion. But I'm always amazed that people can do this with the little blighters!

[Steve J]

And now I know how to pronounce it .

[irregularwars]

Pronounced with a hard 'c' (i.e. 'k') and a double o you get 'kooning'. Then the relationship with 'koning'/'König'/'king' will be more readily seen.

Is that right?! I never realised the 'y' was pronounced as 'oo'. I have always read it as an 'i'. Four years of high-school German obviously made little impact on me but now that I see that, your explanation makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for all the compliments gents.

[OldenBUA]

Is that right?! I never realised the 'y' was pronounced as 'oo'. I have always read it as an 'i'. Four years of high-school German obviously made little impact on me but now that I see that, your explanation makes a lot of sense.

No, it isn't.    Shows how much I know about this, anyway. The oo sound would be represented by an u, while the y is used for something like an i, but not quite.

Try the following link, where the y in the first (close) row is the sound in cyning. For König, it's the slashed o, and for koning it's the o, both in the third (close-mid) row.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio