Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kneh₂-

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*kneh₂-

1. to scratch, to scrape

Descendants

• Hellenic
  • Ancient Greek: κνάω (knáō) 
• Balto-Slavic
  • Lithuanian: knója
• *knéh₂-ye-ti
  • Proto-Germanic: *hnōjaną
    • Proto-West Germanic: *hnōjan
  • Proto-Celtic: *knāyeti

References

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 721
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 211
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “237”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN