kneel

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  1. intransitive verb To go down or rest on one or both knees.

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  1. Middle English knelen, from Old English cnēowlian; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English knelen, cneolen, cneolien, kneulen, knewlen, from Anglo-Saxon *cneówlian (cited from a manuscript and not verified, but supported also by the verbal noun kny¯, for *cny¯lung, glossed by L. accubitus) (= Dutch knielen = Middle Low German knelen, knilen, Low German knelen = German dial. knielen, also (Swiss) kneulen, knülen = Danish knæle), kneel; with formative -l, of freq. force, from cneów, Middle English kne, knee: see knee, n., and cf. knee, v.
 

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