CNIHT
- noun [ masculine ]
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Sum lytel sweltende cniht
a little dying boy,
- Bd. 4, 8; S. 575, 23: Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 58, 43.
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Tyn wintra cniht
a boy of ten years,
- L. In. 7; Th. i. 106, 18: Lk. Bos. 7, 7: Bd. 5, 19; S. 637, 4: Byrht. Th.
136, 18; By. 153.
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Fram ðínum cnihte
a puero tuo.
- Ps. Th. 68, 17.
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Heó cwæþ to ðam cnihte
ait ad puerum,
- Gen. 24, 65.
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Cwicne abregd cniht of áde
take the boy alive from the pile,
- Cd. 141; Th. 176, 20; Gen. 2914: 162; Th. 203, 20; Exod.
406.
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Ðú ðone cnyht to us brohtest in Bethlem
thou broughtest the boy to us in Bethlehem,
- Exon. 121a; Th. 463, 33; Hö. 79.
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He seðle gesette in ðære cneohtas and geonge menn lǽrde wǽron
he set up a school in which boys and young men were taught,
- Bd. 3, 18; S. 545, 45, col. 2.
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Ðyssum cnyhtum wes líðe
be gentle to these boys,
- Beo. Th. 2443; B. 1219.
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Ðæt hie ðæs cnihtes cwealm gesóhton
that they should seek the young man's death,
- Andr. Kmbl. 2243; An. 1123: 1824; An. 914.
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Ða cnihtas cræft leornedon
the youths learned science,
- Cd. 176; Th. 221, 4; Dan. 83: 182; Th. 228, 2; Dan. 196.
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To cwale cnihta
for the destruction of the youths,
- Cd. 184; Th. 229, 32; Dan. 226.
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Cnyhta
of the youths,
- Exon. 55a; Th. 195, 32; Az. 165.
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Wundor Godes on ðám cnihtum gecýðed wæs the miracle of God was manifest on the youths, Cd. 197;
Th.
- 245, 32; Dan. 472.
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Moises sende cnihtas
Moyses misit juvenes,
- Ex. 24, 5: Cd. 176; Th. 221, 16; Dan. 89: Cd. 195; Th. 243, 5; Dan.
431.
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Cnihtas wurdon ealde ge giunge ealle forhwerfde to sumum dióre
the attendants [of Ulysses], old and young, were all transformed to some beast,
- Bt. Met. Fox 26, 170; Met. 26, 85.
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Agynþ beátan ða cnihtas and ða þínena
cæperit percutere servos et ancillas,
- Lk. Bos. 12, 45.
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Ic, Oswold bisceop, landes sumne dǽl sumum cnihte ðæm is Osulf nama, for uncre sybbe, forgeaf
I, bishop Oswald, have given a portion of land to a knight named Osulf, for our kinship,
- Cod. Dipl. 557; A. D. 969; Kmbl. iii. 49, 32: 612; A. D. 977; Kmbl. iii.
159, 25.
Bosworth, Joseph. “CNIHT.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/6460.
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