Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kneht
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editUnknown.[1]
Noun
editInflection
editMasculine a-stem | ||
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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
editDescendants
edit- Old English: cniht, cnaiht — Northumbrian; cnæht — Mercian, Northumbrian; cneht — Anglian; cneoht, cnyht, cnieht
- Old Frisian: kniucht, knecht
- Old Saxon: kneht
- Old Dutch: *cneht
- Old High German: kneht
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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-”
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*kneht”