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CNIHT

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
CNIHT, cneoht, cnyht, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §49; §86; §157; §169; §182; §326; §335;
A boy, youth, attendant, servant, KNIGHT: hence the modern knights of a shire are so called because theyserve the shire; puer, juvenis, adolescens, servus
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  • Sum lytel sweltende cniht

    a little dying boy

    • Bd. 4, 8;
    • S. 575, 23:
    • Ors. 3, 7;
    • Bos. 58, 43.
  • Tyn wintra cniht

    a boy of ten years

    • L. In. 7;
    • Th. i. 106, 18;
    • Lk. Bos. 7, 7;
    • Bd. 5, 19;
    • S. 637, 4;
    • Byrht. Th. 136, 18;
    • By. 153.
  • Fram ðínum cnihte

    a puero tuo

    • Ps. Th. 68, 17.
  • Heó cwæþ to ðam cnihte

    ait ad puerum

    • Gen. 24, 65.
  • Cwicne abregd cniht of áde

    take the boy alive from the pile

    • Cd. 141;
    • Th. 176, 20;
    • Gen. 2914: 162;
    • Th. 203, 20;
    • Exod. 406.
  • Ðú ðone cnyht to us brohtest in Bethlem

    thou broughtest the boy to us in Bethlehem

    • Exon. 121a;
    • Th. 463, 33;
    • Hö. 79.
  • He seðle gesette in ðære cneohtas and geonge menn lǽrde wǽron

    he set up a school in which boys and young men were taught

    • Bd. 3, 18;
    • S. 545, 45, col. 2.
  • Ðyssum cnyhtum wes líðe

    be gentle to these boys

    • Beo. Th. 2443;
    • B. 1219.
  • Ðæt hie ðæs cnihtes cwealm gesóhton

    that they should seek the young man´s death

    • Andr. Kmbl. 2243;
    • An. 1123: 1824;
    • An. 914.
  • Ða cnihtas cræft leornedon

    the youths learned science

    • Cd. 176;
    • Th. 221, 4;
    • Dan. 83: 182;
    • Th. 228, 2;
    • Dan. 196.
  • To cwale cnihta

    for the destruction of the youths

    • Cd. 184;
    • Th. 229, 32;
    • Dan. 226.
  • Cnyhta

    of the youths

    • Exon. 55a;
    • Th. 195, 32;
    • Az. 165.
  • Wundor Godes on ðám cnihtum gecýðed wæs

    the miracle of God was manifest on the youths

    • Cd. 197;
    • Th. 245, 32;
    • Dan. 472.
  • Moises sende cnihtas

    Moyses misit juvenes

    • Ex. 24, 5;
    • Cd. 176;
    • Th. 221, 16;
    • Dan. 89;
    • Cd. 195;
    • Th. 243, 5;
    • Dan. 431.
  • Cnihtas wurdon ealde ge giunge ealle forhwerfde to sumum dióre

    the attendants of Ulysses, old and young, were all transformed to some beast

    • Bt. Met. Fox 26, 170;
    • Met. 26, 85.
  • Agynþ beátan ða cnihtas and ða þínena

    cæperit percutere servos et ancillas

    • Lk. Bos. 12, 45.
  • Ic, Oswold bisceop, landes sumne dǽl sumum cnihte ðæm is Osulf nama, for uncre sybbe, forgeaf

    I, bishop Oswald, have given a portion of land to a knight named Osulf, for our kinship

    • Cod. Dipl. 557;
    • A. D. 969;
    • Kmbl. iii. 49, 32: 612;
    • A. D. 977;
    • Kmbl. iii. 159, 25.
Etymology
Wyc. kniȝt, knyȝt
R. Brun. knyght
Chauc. knight, knyght
R. Glouc. knygt
Laym. cniht
Orm. cnihtess, pl.
Scot. knecht, knycht
Plat. knecht, knekt
Frs. knecht
O. Frs. kniucht, knecht, m.
Dut. Kil. Ger. knecht, m.
M. H. Ger. knëht, m.
O. H. Ger. kneht, m.
Dan. knegt, m. f.
Swed. knekt, m.
Derived forms
in-cniht,, leorning-
Linked entries
v.  cneoht cnyht.
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