Etymology

kneed

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Today it means: Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees. Full definition →

English knee ← Middle English kne ← Old English cnēo
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵnéw-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵnéwom
  3. Proto-Germanic*knewą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*kneu
  5. Old Englishcnēo
  6. Middle Englishkne
  7. Englishknee
  8. English todaykneed

From knee + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.