cniht

Meaning

1. boy

   Ealle þā cneohtas and eall þā mæġdenu þe on þǣm lande frumcennedu wǣron wurdon on ānre niht ācweald.

   All the boys and girls in the country who were first-born children were slaughtered in one night.

   late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

2. servant, attendant

3. male of high military rank, ranking below a baron, usually previously having worked as a page or squire

Declension