The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*knehtahaidu
- Old English · inherited fromcnihthād
- Middle English · inherited fromknyghthode
- English todayknighthood
From Middle English knyghthode, knyȝthod, from Old English cnihthād, from Proto-West Germanic *knehtahaidu, equivalent to knight + -hood. Cognate with Dutch knechtheid, dialectal German Knechtheit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.