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Didn't OE cniht originally just mean something akin to 'dude?'
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Nis in al þis kine {} lond {;} cniht swa muchel ne swa strong.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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Ich ileue þe cniht {;} þ̵ þu me sugge soð {} riht.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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Þo answerede {;} Keþereh {;} cniht mid þe wisest. he was þe beste latimer {;} þat euere wone [de] her.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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Knight is not always knightly, for Anglo-Sax. cniht means servant; cf.
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Berserkers with his handful of armed servants if the old cniht had not restrained him almost by force; when he spent his breath in railing at everything between earth and sky.
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He was a stout white-bearded old cniht with an obstinate old face that looked something like a ruddy apple in a snow-bank.
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At an almost imperceptible sign from the old cniht, the henchmen made a noiseless step nearer their master.
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Motioning them from his path, he was starting forward a second time, when the old cniht laid a hand lightly upon his shoulder.
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Sebert's frank face betrayed his surprise at the complaisance, but he gave his pledge and his thanks with what courtliness he could muster, and releasing his passive prisoner, pushed her gently into the safe-keeping of the old cniht.
fbharjo commented on the word cniht
Early English word meaning lad from which the word knight is derived
June 21, 2010