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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kneht

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown.[1]

Noun

*kneht m[2][1]

  1. youth, boy
    Synonyms: *knabō, *knappō
  2. servant, knight

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *kneht
Genitive *knehtas
Singular Plural
Nominative *kneht *knehtō, *knehtōs
Accusative *kneht *knehtā
Genitive *knehtas *knehtō
Dative *knehtē *knehtum
Instrumental *knehtu *knehtum

Derived terms
  • *knehtahaidu

Descendants
  • Old English: cniht, cnaiht; cnæht; cneht; cneoht, cnyht, cnieht
    • Middle English: knyght
      • English: knight
      • Scots: knicht
      • Yola: nickht
  • Old Frisian: kniucht, knecht
    • North Frisian: knecht
    • Saterland Frisian: Knächt
    • West Frisian: knjocht
  • Old Saxon: kneht
    • Middle Low German: knecht
      • Dutch Low Saxon: knecht
      • German Low German: Knecht
        Westphalian (Westmünsterländisch): Knech
      • → Danish: knægt
      • → Faroese: knektur
      • → Swedish: knekt
      • → Norwegian: knekt
  • Old Dutch: *cneht
    • Middle Dutch: cnecht
  • Old High German: kneht

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Knecht”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 383: “wg. *knehta-”
  2. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*kneht”
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