knouth

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *knāan. Quotation should be analyzed as knou + th /h/ + em /ɛm/, compare scoth /skɔh/.

Pronunciation

Verb

knouth (third-person singular simple present nouth, simple past knew)

  1. to know
    Synonym: 'ote
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Ich knouth em.
      I know him.
  2. knoweth

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 51
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