cnivet
Old French
noun
Definitions
- knife
Etymology
Inherited from cnīfittus suffix from Latin *cnīfus derived from Frankish *knīb, *knīf (knife).
Origin
Frankish
*knīb, *knīf
Gloss
knife
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Classifier
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *cnīfus Latin
- canif French
- *gneybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *knībaz Proto-Germanic
- cnif Old English
- knif Middle English
- knífr Old Norse
- canivet Old French
- ganivet Catalan, Valencian
- canivete Galician
- knîp Middle High German
- *knīb gmw-pro
- *knīf Old Dutch
- knīpen Middle Low German
- *knīf Old Saxon
- *nijpē Proto-Samic
- *knīb, *knīf Frankish
- canivet Old Catalan
- cnīfittus ML