Talk:kinder-

Is there really proof that this comes from Old High German? Dutch does not descend from goh. Cognate sure, derived from I doubt that. Another thing is that "kinder" is not so much a prefix but the old plural of kind before it picked up a second plural ending -en. In compounds the word has retained its old form. Jcwf 05:57, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion
RE: the quoted etymology. Dutch does not descend from Old High German but via Middle Dutch and Old Dutch and Old low west Franconian from West Germanic. Certainly Middle Dutch already had the word kind with a plural kinder, later kinderen. The form kinder- is therefore simply the old single plural on -er (instead of the double plural kinderen.) Kind, kinder- kinderen are imho simply part of the vocabulary inherited from West-Germanic. Jcwf 13:44, 6 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Jcwf, you could well be right. I sourced the etymology based on the German cognate, Kinder. The source seems to have skipped one step and gone straight from Old High German to Indo-European without mentioning West Germanic. It's your call. I am all ears! Jamesjiao 01:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Jcwf, as I haven't received feedback from the othe Wiktionarians, I will for the time being remove the Etymology section and put in a rfe tag in its place. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 03:03, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Striking, per Jamesjiao. —Ruakh TALK 02:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

kinder-
Same as zoek- above. Not a prefix, just the stem of kind. —CodeCat 10:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

deleted. -- Prince Kassad 09:31, 12 March 2011 (UTC)