cniht
Old English
noun
Definitions
- boy
- (male) servant, attendant
- male of high military rank, ranking below a baron, usually previously having worked as a page or squire
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*knehtaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Knight English
- Knightsbridge English
- knight English
- *inknehtaz Proto-Germanic
- *knehtaz Proto-Germanic
- cnihthad Old English
- cnihtlic Old English
- cnihtwesende Old English
- incniht Old English
- leornung Old English
- leornungcniht Old English
- wesende Old English
- knight Middle English
- knyghte Middle English
- knægt Danish
- cnecht Middle Dutch
- kneht Old High German
- knëht Middle High German
- Kniecht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *kneht gmw-pro
- *knehtahaidu gmw-pro
- *kneht Old Dutch
- knecht Middle Low German
- kneht Old Saxon
- Chnëcht Alemannic German