canivete

Galician

/kaniˈβete̝/

noun

Definitions

knife, penknife

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cnivet (little knife) derived from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (knife) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (pinch).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gneybʰ-

Gloss

pinch

Concept

Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

🤌

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*cnīfus Latin
*gneybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
*knībaz Proto-Germanic
cnif Old English
knífr Old Norse
cnivet Old French
knîp Middle High German
*knīb gmw-pro
*knīf Old Dutch
knīpen Middle Low German
*knīf Old Saxon
*nijpē Proto-Samic
*knīb, *knīf Frankish
canivet Old Catalan
cnīfittus ML