cniht – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of cniht

Noun: cniht
Gender: m

Nominative

Singularcniht
Pluralcneoht; cnihtas

Genitive

Singularcnihtes
Pluralcneoht; cnihta

Dative

Singularcnihte
Pluralcneoht; cnihtum

Accusative

Singularcniht
Pluralcneoht; cnihtas

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  • On þām ġewinne, ⁊ ēac on moneġum oþrum æfter þǣm, Hannibal ġecȳþde þone nīþ ⁊ þone hete þe hē beforan his fæder ġeswōr, þā hē nigonwintre cniht wæs, þæt hē næfre ne wurde Rōmana frēond. (In that battle, and also in many others after that, Hannibal proved the hatred and hostility that he had sworn before his father when he was a nine-year-old boy, that he would never become a friend of the Romans.)

Nouns inflected like cniht

hellcniht, cniht,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Verbs referencing "cniht"

English Nouns knight, Middle English Nouns knyght.

Translations