knekt
Norwegian Nynorsk
noun-m1
Definitions
- jack playing card
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German knecht (servant, knight's servant, boy, journeyman) derived from Old Saxon kneht derived from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*knehtaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Knecht English
- beknight English
- knight English
- knightable English
- knightage English
- knightdom English
- knightess English
- knighteth English
- knighthead English
- knighthood English
- knightless English
- knightlet English
- knightlike English
- knightling English
- knightly English
- knightress English
- knightship English
- merknight English
- unknight English
- Folterknecht German
- Knecht German
- Knechtschaft German
- Kriegsknecht German
- Landsknecht German
- Mitknecht German
- knechtisch German
- кнехт Russian
- knekt Norwegian Bokmål
- *knehtaz Proto-Germanic
- knekt Swedish
- knikt Swedish
- teknekt Swedish
- cniht Old English
- knight Middle English
- knægt Danish
- kneht Old High German
- knëht Middle High German
- *kneht gmw-pro
- *kneht Old Dutch
- knecht Middle Low German
- kneht Old Saxon
- kneekt Westrobothnian