genuflect

The story

1. Latin · derived fromgenū“knee”
2. Medieval Latin · borrowed fromgenūflectō“to bend the knee”
3. English todaygenuflect

PIE word *ǵónu From around 1620–1630 from Medieval Latin genūflectō (“to bend the knee”) equivalent to the Latin genū (“knee”) + flectō (“to bend”).

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