knie

• (regional) knieg

From Dutch knie.

• IPA^(key): /kni/, [kniː]

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knie (plural knieë)

1. knee

From Middle Dutch cnie, from Old Dutch *cnio, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.

• IPA^(key): /kni/

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• Hyphenation: knie
• Rhymes: -i

knie f (plural knieën, diminutive knietje n)

1. a knee
2. (chiefly diminutive) a kneeing, a prod or blow with the knee

• knielen

• Afrikaans: knie
• Berbice Creole Dutch: kini
• Jersey Dutch: k'nî
• Negerhollands: kni, kini, knie
• → Papiamentu: kinichi (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: kindi, kni, kini
  • → Aukan: kini
  • → Kari'na: kini
  • → Saramaccan: kiní

• IPA^(key): [kniː], [ˈkniːə]

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knie

1. inflection of knien:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Inherited from Old High German kneo, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈknɪe̯/

knie n

1. knee

• Alemannic German: Chnüüw
• Cimbrian: khnia
• German: Knie
• Luxembourgish: Knéi
• Vilamovian: kni
• Yiddish: קני (kni)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “knie”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel