kne

See also: KNe, -kne, kné, and Kné

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Kankanaey or Kankanaey Kankanaëy.

Symbol

kne

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kankanaey.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kankanaey terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• knee, knew, knewe, know
• kneo, kneow (West Midland)
• cneo, cneow, cnoe (early West Midland)

Etymology

Inherited from Anglian Old English cnēo (West Saxon Old English cnēow is continued in knew), from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kneː/, /kniu̯/
  • Rhymes: -eː
• IPA^(key): /knøː/, /knyu̯/ (West Midland)

Noun

kne (plural knes or knen)

1. The knee (or a similar joint in other animals)
   • a. 1333, “Poem 15: Eterne rex altissime; Fol. 209v-210r”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎^[1], Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:

     Vor hœ́uene and œ́rþe and helle, and al þat þrinne bœ́n, / To þé shullen bouwen hœm and bénden hœre knœ́n.

     Since heaven, earth, and hell, and everything that's in them, / shall bow before You and bend their knees.

2. A knee (bent timber for shipbuilding)
3. (figurative) A generation; a degree of descent.

Derived terms

• knelek

Descendants

• English: knee
• Middle Scots: kne, kney, knie
  • Scots: knee
• Yola: konnee

References

• “knẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse kné, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

Noun

kne n (definite singular kneet, indefinite plural kne or knær, definite plural knea or knærne, genitive knes)

1. (anatomy) a knee (joint in the leg)

Derived terms

• knelang

References

• “kne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kné, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”). Akin to English knee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kneː/

Noun

kne n (definite singular kneet, indefinite plural kne, definite plural knea)

1. (anatomy) a knee (joint in the leg)

Derived terms

• knea (verb)
• knelang

References

• “kne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• enk, ken, nek