Etymograph

English

subking

From sub- + king.

Formed from sub- + king

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce’

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Proto-Germanic *kuningaz

Proto-West Germanic *kuning

Old English cening

Middle English king ‘king’

English king

Today it means

noun A monarch of a polity that is in turn part of another kingdom.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “subking”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / subking