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prestigious awards people can obtain. The word knight, from Old
English cniht ("boy" or "servant"), is a
cognate of the
German word
Knecht ("servant,...
- (without any
change of sound)
spelled Kent, keȝ, kyng, breke, and seoke; even
cniht ('knight') was
subsequently changed to kniht, and þic ('thick') was changed...
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letters and phonemes.
There were not
usually any
silent letters – in the word
cniht, for example, both the ⟨c⟩ and ⟨h⟩ were
pronounced (/knixt ~ kniçt/) unlike...
- the
young men or retainers," from the Old
English cniht (genitive case
plural –a) and brycg.
Cniht, in pre-Norman days, did not have the
later meaning...
- long hair and moustaches,
upsetting the
older generation. (The Anglo-Saxon
cniht did not take the
sense of the
French chevalier before the
latest period...
- his own means." A
noble household included a
number of retainers,
termed cniht ('young man', 'retainer'; from
which the
modern word
knight derives) or...
- for a grant. List of
baronetcies Knight of
Kerry Knight, from Old
English cniht ("boy" or "servant"), a
cognate of the
German word
Knecht ("labourer" or...
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related to Oskytel,
later Archbishop of York. He was also
related to the
cniht Osulf, who
received land
while Oswald was
bishop of Worcester.
Oswald was...
- term
knight (chevalier)
dates to this period.
Before the 12th century,
cniht was a term for a servant. In the 12th century, it
became used of a military...
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hence a
young male
attendant or
servant (compare in
meaning Old
English '
cniht' = knight;
German 'Knecht').
There are a
number of
variations in the spelling...
