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Old 06-11-2008, 12:50 AM
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King in its common usage does generally refer to male monarchs. But the origins of the word and its usage are not really gender specific, at least according to the Online Etymology Dictionary:

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O.E. cyning, from P.Gmc. *kuninggaz (cf. Du. koning, O.H.G. kuning, O.N. konungr, Dan. konge, Ger. könig). Possibly related to O.E. cynn "family, race" (see kin), making a king originally a "leader of the people;" or from a related root suggesting "noble birth," making a king originally "one who descended from noble birth." The sociological and ideological implications make this a topic of much debate. Finnish kuningas "king," O.C.S. kunegu "prince" (Rus. knyaz, Boh. knez), Lith. kunigas "clergyman" are loans from Gmc. In O.E., used for names of chiefs of Anglian and Saxon tribes or clans, then of the states they founded. Also extended to British and Danish chiefs they fought. The chess piece so called from 1411; the playing card from 1563; use in checkers/draughts first recorded 1820. Applied in nature to species deemed remarkably big or dominant (e.g. king crab, 1698),
they might want to revise that in english
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Old 06-11-2008, 01:05 AM
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they might want to revise that in english
Not to argue, but it was.
It basically is how the etymology of a word is typically defined

This describes the origin of the word, indicating that its origin was not gender specific, as it was applied in a broader range, for example "one of noble birth" which could be a male or female.
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they might want to revise that in english
There's just a lot of brackets in there. It's 1am, i'm not even going to try and read it properly.
 

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