cnivet

Old French

Alternative forms

  • canivet

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cnīfittus, from *cnīfus +‎ -ittus, from Frankish *knīf (“knife”).

Noun

cnivet oblique singular, m (oblique plural cnivez or cnivetz, nominative singular cnivez or cnivetz, nominative plural cnivet)[1][2]

  1. knife

Descendants

  • Middle French: canivet
  • → Middle English: kneuet, knyvet
  • → Galician: canivete

References

  1. ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (canivet)
  2. ^ cnivet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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