Noun: cnif
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | cnīf |
| Plural | cnīfas |
Genitive
| Singular | cnīfes |
| Plural | cnīfa |
Dative
| Singular | cnīfe |
| Plural | cnīfum |
Accusative
| Singular | cnīf |
| Plural | cnīfas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cnif
cnif,
Etymology
This word is the expected reflex of Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”), but it is not attested until the 11th century and earlier Old English instead used seax and meteseax (cognate with German Messer), so some suspect that cnīf was borrowed from or reinforced by Old Norse knífr. Cognate with Middle Low German knīf, Middle Dutch cnijf (Dutch knijf), German Kneif. See: German Nouns '
Messer', Old Norse Nouns '
knífr', Dutch Nouns '
knijf'.
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