knecht
Dutch (Brabantic)
/knɛxt/
noun
Definitions
- servant
- (by extension) assistant, hand, employee
- (pejorative) flunky
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch cnecht inherited from Old Dutch *kneht inherited from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*knehtaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- 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
- Folterknecht German
- Knecht German
- Knechtschaft German
- Kriegsknecht German
- Landsknecht German
- Mitknecht German
- knechtisch German
- boer Dutch, Flemish
- boerenknecht Dutch, Flemish
- dienst Dutch, Flemish
- dienstknecht Dutch, Flemish
- knechtschap Dutch, Flemish
- land Dutch, Flemish
- landsknecht Dutch, Flemish
- lans Dutch, Flemish
- lansknecht Dutch, Flemish
- stal Dutch, Flemish
- stalknecht Dutch, Flemish
- toneel Dutch, Flemish
- toneelknecht Dutch, Flemish
- vee Dutch, Flemish
- veeknecht Dutch, Flemish
- voet Dutch, Flemish
- voetknecht Dutch, Flemish
- кнехт Russian
- *knehtaz Proto-Germanic
- cniht Old English
- knight Middle English
- kenek Indonesian
- cnecht Middle Dutch
- cnechtscap Middle Dutch
- kneht Old High German
- kneg Afrikaans
- knëht Middle High German
- Kniecht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *kneht gmw-pro
- *kneht Old Dutch
- knecht Middle Low German
- kneht Old Saxon
- Chnëcht Alemannic German