knútr

See also: Knútr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence Old English cnotta, Old High German knoto).

Noun

knútr m (genitive knúts, plural knútar)

knot
hump, protuberance

Declension

Declension of *knútr* (strong a-stem)
masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	knútr	knútrinn	knútar	knútarnir
accusative	knút	knútinn	knúta	knútana
dative	knúti	knútinum	knútum	knútunum
genitive	knúts	knútsins	knúta	knútanna

Descendants

Icelandic: knútur, hnútur
Faroese: knútur
Norwegian Nynorsk: knut
Old Swedish: knūter
- Swedish: knut
- → Finnish: nuttura
Danish: knude
- Norwegian Bokmål: knute
  - →? Norwegian Nynorsk: knute
⇒ Old Norse: Knútr
- Icelandic: Knútur
- Faroese: Knútur
- Norwegian: Knut
- Swedish: Knut
- Danish: Knud
  - → Greenlandic: Kunuuti
- → Old English: Cnūt
  - Middle English: Knout, Knut
  - → English: Cnut, Knut
- → Anglo-Norman: *Canut, Kenut
  - → Middle English: Canut
    - English: Canute
  - → Medieval Latin: Canūtus
    - → Italian: Canuto
    - → Portuguese: Canuto
    - → Spanish: Canuto
→ Old East Slavic: кнутъ (knutŭ)
- Russian: кнут (knut), кнутъ (knut) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  - → French: knout
    - → English: knout
  - → German: Knute
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кну̏т
      Latin script: knȕt
  - → Greek: κνούτο (knoúto)
  - → Plautdietsch: Knutt
  - → Polish: knut
  - → Romanian: cnut
  - → Slovak: knuta

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “knútr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive