cnihtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

発音

• IPA: /knixt/, [kniçt]
• 韻: -ixt

名詞

cniht m

1. boy
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     On þām ġewinne, ⁊ ēac on moneġum oþrum æfter þǣm, Hannibal ġecȳþde þone nīþ ⁊ þone hete þe hē beforan his fæder ġeswōr, þā hē nigonwintre cniht wæs, þæt hē næfre ne wurde Rōmana frēond.

     In that battle, and also in many others after that, Hannibal proved the hatred and hostility that he had sworn before his father when he was a nine-year-old boy, that he would never become a friend of the Romans.

2. (male) servant, attendant
3. male of high military rank, ranking below a baron, usually previously having worked as a page or squire

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

等位語

• mæġden

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: knyght
  • English: knight
  • Scots: knicht
  • Yola: nickht