cnivet

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *cnīfittus, from *cnīfus +‎ -ittus, from Frankish *knīf (knife).

Noun

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cnivet oblique singularm (oblique plural cnivez or cnivetz, nominative singular cnivez or cnivetz, nominative plural cnivet)[1][2]

  1. knife

Descendants

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  • Middle French: canivet
  • Middle English: kneuet, knyvet
  • Galician: canivete

References

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  1. ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (canivet)
  2. ^ cnivet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub