Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kneht

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown.^[1]

Noun

*kneht m^[2]^[1]

youth, boy
Synonyms: *knabō, *knappō
servant, knight

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	kneht, knehta
Genitive	*knehtas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kneht, knehta	*knehtōs
Accusative	kneht, knehta	*knehtā
Genitive	*knehtas	*knehtō
Dative	*knehtē	*knehtum
Instrumental	*knehtu	*knehtum

Derived terms

*knehtahaidu

Descendants

Old English: cniht, cnaiht — Northumbrian, cnæht — Mercian, Northumbrian, cneht — Anglian, cneoht, cnyht, cnieht
- Middle English: knyght
  - English: knight
  - Scots: knicht
  - Yola: nickht
Old Frisian: kniucht, knecht
- North Frisian: knecht
- Saterland Frisian: Knächt
- West Frisian: knjocht
Old Saxon: kneht
- Middle Low German: knecht
  - Dutch Low Saxon: knecht
  - German Low German: Knecht, (Westphalian) Knech
  - Plautdietsch: Kjnajcht
  - → Danish: knægt
  - → Faroese: knektur
  - → Norwegian: knekt
  - → Swedish: knekt
Old Dutch: cneht
- Middle Dutch: cnecht
  - Dutch: knecht
    - Afrikaans: kneg
    - → Indonesian: kenek
    - Negerhollands: knegt, knecht
  - Limburgish: Knäät
Old High German: kneht
- Middle High German: knëht, cnëcht, cnëht, knëcht
  - Alemannic German: Chnëcht
  - German: Knecht
    - → Russian: кнехт (knext)
  - Luxembourgish: Kniecht
  - Yiddish: קנעכט (knekht)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Kluge, Friedrich (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”

[EWddS-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Kluge, Friedrich (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-”

[2] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*kneht”

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