*knewą

Runic: ᚲᚾᛖᚹᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈkne.wɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

knee

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵn-ew-o-s, from *ǵónu (‘knee’) (specifically the oblique stem *ǵnéw-).

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.knewąknewō
Acc.knewąknewō
Gen.knewas, kniwisknewǫ̂
Dat.knewaiknewamaz
Inst.knewōknewamiz
Voc.knewąknewō

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Descendants

  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *cnio (Old Dutch)
      • cnie (Middle Dutch)
        • kneen (Limburgish)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *cnio (Old Dutch)
      • cnie (Middle Dutch)
        • knie (Dutch)
          • knie (Afrikaans)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • cnēow, cnēo (Old English)
      • kne, knee, knew, knewe, know, kneo, kneow, cneo, cneow, cnoe (Middle English)
        • knee (English)
        • konnee (Yola)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • cnēow, cnēo (Old English)
      • kne, knee, knew, knewe, know, kneo, kneow, cneo, cneow, cnoe (Middle English)
        • kne, kney, knie (Middle Scots)
          • knee (Scots)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • kniu, knī, knē (Old Frisian)
      • Knie (Saterland Frisian)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • kniu, knī, knē (Old Frisian)
      • knībola, knēbolla (Old Frisian)
        • Kniebel (Saterland Frisian)
        • knibbel (West Frisian)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • kneo, kniu, knio, chniu, chneo (Old High German)
      • knie (Middle High German)
        • Chnüüw (Alemannic German)
        • khnia (Cimbrian)
        • Knie (German)
        • Knéi (Luxembourgish)
        • kni (Vilamovian)
        • קני (kni) (Yiddish)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • knio, kneo, kniu (Old Saxon)
      • knê (Middle Low German)
        • Kjnee (Plautdietsch)
  • *kneu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • knio, kneo, kniu (Old Saxon)
      • knê (Middle Low German)
        • Knee, Knie (Low German)
          • Kneei (German Low German)
          • ? (Westphalian)
  • kné (Old Norse)
    • knæ (Faroese)
    • knei (Gutnish)
    • kné, hné (Icelandic)
    • kne, ne, (h)nje (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • kné (Old Norse)
    • knæ (Old Danish)
      • knæ (Danish)
        • kne (Norwegian Bokmål)
  • kné (Old Norse)
    • knǣ (Old Swedish)
      • knä (Swedish)
  • 𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌿 (kniu) (Gothic)

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