knútr

See also: Knútr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence Old English cnotta, Old High German knoto).

Noun

knútr m (genitive knúts, plural knútar)

1. knot
2. hump, protuberance

Declension

Declension of knútr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	knútr	knútrinn	knútar	knútarnir
accusative	knút	knútinn	knúta	knútana
dative	knúti	knútinum	knútum	knútunum
genitive	knúts	knútsins	knúta	knútanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: knútur, hnútur
• Faroese: knútur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: knut
• Old Swedish: knūter
  • Swedish: knut
  • → Finnish: nuttura
• Danish: knude
  • Norwegian Bokmål: knute
    • →? Norwegian Nynorsk: knute
• ⇒ Old Norse: Knútr
  • Icelandic: Knútur
  • Faroese: Knútur
  • Norwegian: Knut
  • Swedish: Knut
  • Danish: Knud
    • → Greenlandic: Kunuuti
  • → Anglo-Norman: *Canut, Kenut
    • → Middle English: Canut
      • English: Canute
    • → Medieval Latin: Canūtus
      • → Italian: Canuto
      • → Portuguese: Canuto
      • → Spanish: Canuto
• → Old East Slavic: кнутъ (knutŭ)
  • Russian: кнут (knut), кнутъ (knut) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → French: knout
      • → English: knout
    • → German: Knute
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: кну̏т

        Latin script: knȕt

    • → Greek: κνούτο (knoúto)
    • → Plautdietsch: Knutt
    • → Polish: knut
    • → Romanian: cnut
    • → Slovak: knuta

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “knútr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive