English
kinnor
Kinnor comes from Hebrew כִּנּוֹר ‘lyre’, and goes back to Proto-Semitic *kinnār-.
- Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*kinnār-‘lyre, harp’root as named · steps between not traced
- Hebrew1880s–presentכִּנּוֹר‘lyre’
- Englishearliest quotation 2017kinnor
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*kinnār-‘lyre, harp’root as named · steps between not traced
- Hebrew1880s–presentכִּנּוֹר‘lyre’
- Englishearliest quotation 2017kinnor
Earliest quotation: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music: “Just as the Kinor of King David played by…”
Every English word from Proto-Semitic *kinnār-
Today it means
noun A stringed instrument of the Israelites.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Semitic *kinnār- / kinnor