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Reconstruction:Latin/cnifus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *knīf (“knife”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kəˈnif/

Noun

*cnīfus m (oblique *cnīfum); second declension (Proto-Gallo-Romance)

  1. knife

Declension
singular plural
nominative */kəˈnifs/ */kəˈnif/
oblique */kəˈnif/ */kəˈnifs/

Descendants
  • Old French: *canif
    • Middle French: canif
    • Norman: cannif (Jèrriais), ganif
    • Picard: cânif (Athois)
  • Old Occitan: ganiva
    • Catalan: ganiva
    • Occitan: ganiva (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cnīfittus (diminutive)
    • Old French: cnivet, canivet (1175–1200, Folie Tristan d’Oxford)
      • Middle French: canivet
      • → Middle English: kneuet, knyvet
      • → Galician: canivete
    • Old Occitan: ganivet
      • Old Catalan: ganivet, ganiuet
        • Catalan: ganivet, canivet, guinavet, guivanet (dialectal)
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