cnie

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *cnio, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą.

Noun

cnie n or f

1. knee

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: knie
  • Afrikaans: knie
• Limburgish: kneen (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

• “cnie”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “cnie (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I