kneht

Middle High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German knëht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈknɛxt/

Noun

knëht m

  1. a boy
  2. a servant, an attendant as contrasted to a hêrre
  3. a squire, perhaps also a page
  4. (early, until the 1170s) a warrior, a knight when combined with a positive and valorizing adjective, usually guot
    Ër ist ein guoter knëht, unde ich bin sîn junger knëht.
    He is a (good) knight, and I am his young squire.
  5. (late) a journeyman

Declension

Declension of knëht (strong masculine without umlaut)
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein dër knëht die knëhte
genitive eines dës knëhtes dër knëhte
dative eime dëm knëhte dën knëhten
accusative einen dën knëht die knëhte

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: Chnëcht
  • German: Knecht
  • Luxembourgish: Kniecht
  • Yiddish: קנעכט (knekht)

References

  • Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “K01055”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
  • Jones, Howard; Jones, Martin H. (2019), The Oxford Guide to Middle High German, →ISBN, page 218, §384
  • Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “knëht”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition
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