knight
Middle English
/knixt/
noun
Definitions
- knight
Etymology
Inherited from Old English cniht (servant, young man, boy, youth) inherited from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*knehtaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Knightsbridge English
- beknight English
- knight English
- knightable English
- knightage English
- knightdom English
- knightess English
- knighteth English
- knighthead English
- knighthood English
- knightless English
- knightlet English
- knightlike English
- knightling English
- knightly English
- knightress English
- knightship English
- merknight English
- unknight English
- *knehtaz Proto-Germanic
- cniht Old English
- cnihthad Old English
- cnihtlic Old English
- cnihtwesende Old English
- incniht Old English
- leornungcniht Old English
- knyghte Middle English
- kneht Old High German
- *kneht gmw-pro
- *kneht Old Dutch
- knecht Middle Low German
- kneht Old Saxon