knaa

• naa

Inherited from Northern Middle English knawe, from Old English cnawan.

knaa

1. (Geordie) To know

   A' divint knaa, man!

• ken (Geordie)
• know (Standard English)

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “knaa”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “knaa”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 September 2024.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]

• Akan, Kana, kana, naka

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na

knaa

1. to hear