Etymology

knape

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Today it means: A lad. Full definition →

Middle English knape ← Old English cnapa ← Proto-West Germanic *knappō
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*knappō
  2. Old English · inherited fromcnapa“a lad, boy”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromknape“a lad, boy”
  4. English todayknape

From Middle English knape (“a lad, boy”), from Old English cnapa (“a lad, boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *knappō.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcnapa all →

Knapton

Proto-West Germanic*knappō all →

noodle

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.