kne – Middle English noun declension

Noun: kne

Sg.	kne
Pl.	knes; knen

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Vor hœ́uene and œ́rþe and helle, and al þat þrinne bœ́n, / To þé shullen bouwen hœm and bénden hœre knœ́n. (Since heaven, earth, and hell, and everything that's in them, / shall bow before You and bend their knees.) [a. 1333, “Poem 15: Eterne rex altissime; Fol. 209v-210r”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919), Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:]

Nouns inflected like kne

scalle, schire, schete, bente mone, pantere, newe mone, schrewe, schanke, schafte, morewetid sterre, kidenere, yong mone, sorinesse, chirche, cold sterre, crouche, culvere, blasynge sterre, do, to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Inherited from Anglian Old English cnēo (West Saxon Old English cnēow is continued in knew), from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

Verbs referencing "kne"

English Nouns knee.