Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *knīpanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_knīpaną
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*ǵneybʰ-to pinch
verbStrong class 1to pinchFrom Proto-Indo-European *ǵneybʰ- (‘to pinch’). The root final -p was adopted from or influenced by the iterative *knippōną (‘to pinch, cut, snap’); see there for more.Likely related to *hnīpaną (‘to pinch, squeeze’), but it's unclear how the variation of the initial consonant arose.