knee – English noun declension

English noun forms of knee

Noun: knee
Singularknee
Pluralknees

Sample Sentences

  • Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
  • He made him ſtoup perforce vnto his knee, / And doe vnwilling worſhip to the Saint, / That on his ſhield depainted he did ſee[…] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 249:]
  • KORRIS: I have tasted your heart. You have been with them, but you are still "of" us. Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar. Open your eyes and let the dream take flight. [1988 March 21, Vaughn Armstrong, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:]
  • Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them. [1980, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 41:]
  • Give them title, knee, and approbation. [c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], line 36:]
  • […] and he made a knee to the Caesar of Patna, giving that man all honour due to him. [2009, C. E. Murphy, The Pretender's Crown, page 127:]
  • the knee of a graph
  • Tante was groggy but not quite out so Winnie gave him a knee to the jaw that Rose had shown her, and that was enough. He slumped like a rag-doll to the floor. [2016, Clive Mullis, Scooters Yard:]
  • The duty is, or should be, a thing taught at one's father's knee, and the structure of the family gently enforces it. [1978, Time, volume 111, numbers 18-26, page 49:]
  • This has significant implications for sacramental theology which it seems Pusey even realised in the way he spoke of his early life and of learning all he knew about the Eucharist and the Catholic faith at his mother's knee, […] [2015, Brian Douglas, The Eucharistic Theology of Edward Bouverie Pusey, page 113:]

Nouns inflected like knee

bronchial tree, eye, bee, cheese, tree, knee,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéwom
4. Proto-Germanic *knewą
5. Proto-West Germanic *kneu
6. Old English cnēo
7. Middle English kne
8. English knee
9. Inherited from Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu.
10. See also West Frisian knibbel, Low German Knee, Knie, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu).
11. The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene. See: Middle English Nouns 'kne', Middle English Nouns 'kne', Dutch Nouns 'knie', German Nouns 'Knie', Danish Nouns 'knæ', Swedish Nouns 'knä', Latin Nouns 'genū', Ancient Greek Nouns 'γόνυ'.

Verbs referencing "knee"

German Nouns Knie, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kne, Ancient Greek Nouns γόνυ, Irish Nouns glúin.