The story
- Old English · inherited frombecnyttan“to knit around; tie up; tie around; bind; surround”
- Middle English · inherited from*beknitten
- English todaybeknit
From the Middle English *beknitten, from the Old English becnyttan (“to knit around; tie up; tie around; bind; surround”), equivalent to be- + knit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.