knyght

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English

Noun

knyght (plural knyghts)

Obsolete spelling of knight

Middle English

Alternative forms

knicht, knict, knicth, knight, knighte, kniȝt, kniȝte, kniht, knygȝt, knyghte, knyȝght, knyȝt, knyȝte, knyht, knyte
cinht, cnihht, cniht, cnist (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /knixt/, /kniːxt/
(dialectal or late) IPA^(key): /kniːt/
Rhymes: -ixt

Noun

knyght (plural knyghtes or knyghten)

A knight (armoured noble soldier)
- c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎, folio 34, recto, lines 34-35; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:
  [Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte.
  "If Pilate himself came with ten hundred knights, / Lord, I would still fight for your sake."
(by extension) A noble; a potentate.
(figuratively) A warrior; a fighter.
(chiefly Early Middle English) A servant or attendant.
(Early Middle English) A boy or youth.
(chess) A knight (chess piece)

Related terms

Descendants

English: knight
Scots: knicht
Yola: nickht

References

“knī̆ght, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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