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Old English · noun

cneow

Normalised cnēow

Part of speech
noun, neuter
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/kne͜oːw/
Syllables
kne͜oːw (1 syllable)
Modern English
kneerelationship

Meaning

  1. knee

    Hīe sǣton on cnēowum

    they sat on their knees.

  2. a generation; relationship

    On ānum cnēowe

    in one generation.

Declension

Declension of cneow
SingularPlural
Nominative cnēowcnēowu
Accusative cnēowcnēowu
Genitive cnēowescnēowa
Dative cnēowecnēowum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From earlier cnēo, with the w of the oblique forms and the long diphthong of the endingless forms generalized throughout the paradigm. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Old Frisian knē, Old Saxon knio, Old High German knio, Old Norse kné, Gothic (kniu); as well as Sanskrit जानु (jānu), Avestan (žnūm), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Albanian gju, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu), and Latin genu.

Descendants

knee

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