cneow – Old English noun declension

Noun: cneow
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	cnēow
Plural	cnēowu

Genitive

Singular	cnēowes
Plural	cnēowa

Dative

Singular	cnēowe
Plural	cnēowum

Accusative

Singular	cnēow
Plural	cnēowu

Sample Sentences

Hīe sǣton on cnēowum (they sat on their knees.)
Wonders of the East
On sumon lande beoð menn akende ðā beoþ on lenge six fotmǣla lange. Hī habbað beardas ōþ cnēow sīde ⁊ feax ōð hēlan. (In that land, men are born that are six feet in height. They have beards down to of their knees and hair down to their heels.)
On ānum cnēowe (in one generation.)

Nouns inflected like cneow

boxtreow, eletreow, syrftreow, æppeltreow, laurtreow, persoctreow, cneow, palmtreow, galgtreow,

Etymology

1. From earlier cnēo, with the w of the oblique forms and the long diphthong of the endingless forms generalized throughout the paradigm. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian knē, Old Saxon knio, Old High German knio, Old Norse kné, Gothic 𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌿 (kniu); as well as Sanskrit जानु (jānu), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬏𐬨 (žnūm), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Albanian gju, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu), and Latin genu. See: Old Norse Nouns 'kné', Gothic Nouns '𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌿', Ancient Greek Nouns 'γόνυ', Latin Nouns 'genu'.