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§5; §7; §52; §88; §89; §140; §169; §173; §232; §264; §265; §266; §285; §310; §361; §363;
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  • Mín ádlige cneów,

      Hml. Th. ii. 134, 32, 23.

  • Þæt þá eá mehte wífmon be hiere cneówe oferwadan

    amnem feminis vix genua tingentibus permeabilem,

      Ors. 2, 4: S. 72, 33.

  • Cnéuo béged

    genu flexo,

      Mk. L. 10, 17.

  • Cnéw gebéged (knéu bégende, R.)

    genu flexu,

      Mt. L. 27, 29.

  • Cneówa

    genua,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 25.
  • Cnyówu, i. 65, 40.

  • Feóllan ealle on cneówum biddende,

      Hml. S. 18, 257.

  • Ic wille ꝥ gé beran eówer leóht tó mé, and licgað on cneówum (

    kneel

    ),
      21, 296.

  • Cnéum gewælteno (cnéu bégende)

    genibus provolutus,

      Mt. L. 17, 14.

  • Mid gesetnum cneóum

    positis genibus,

      Lk. L. 22, 41.

  • Gisettedum cnéum,

      Rtl. 44, 13.

  • Settun on cneóm

    ponentes genua,

      Mk. R. 15; 19.

  • Feól tó cnéuum ðæs Hǽlendes,

      Lk. L. 5, 8.

  • Ástreccað eówru cneówu,

      Past. 65, 18.

  • Ꝥ man his cneówu gebíge sixtigum síðum tó eorðan,

      Ll. Th. ii. 284, 31.

  • Cneówa,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 83.

  • Hí bígdon heora cneów,

      Mt. 27, 29: Hml. Th. ii. 148, 9.

  • Knéwa,

      Mk. L. 15, 19.
a generation, a degree of descent in a genealogy [v. N. E. D. knee, ll. 11; Grmm. R. A. 468-70]
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  • On ðám feórðan cneówe hí gecyrrað hider ongeán,

      Hml. Th. ii. 190, 22.

  • Feówerténe kneó (

    generationes

    ),
      Mt. R. 1, 17.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cneów.” 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/41941.

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