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Canute

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English Canut, from Anglo-Norman *Canut, Kenut (compare Medieval Latin Canūtus), from Old Norse Knútr, possibly originally a byname meaning "knot".[1]

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Proper noun

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Canute

  1. (historical) A male given name from the Germanic languages used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.
  2. Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway.
  3. A town in Oklahoma.

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References

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  1. ^ Porck, Thijs, Mann, Jodie (2014) “How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut)”, in NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, volume 67, number 2, →DOI, pages 237–243.

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