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Middle English
Noun
cniht
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of knyght
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Pronunciation
Noun
cniht m
- boy
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
On þām ġewinne, ⁊ on moneġum oþrum æfter þǣm, Hannibal ġecȳþde þone nīþ ⁊ þone hete þe hē beforan his fæder ġeswōr, þā hē nigonwintre cniht wæs, þæt hē næfre ne wurde Rōmana frēond.- In that battle, and in many others after that, Hannibal proved the hatred and hostility that he swore before his father when he was a nine-year-old boy, that he would never become a friend of the Romans.
- (male) servant, attendant
- male of high military rank, ranking below a baron, usually previously having worked as a page or squire
Declension
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