cniht
- noun [ masculine ]
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Scipia wæs cniht (
adolescens
),- Ors. 4, 10; S. 196, 12.
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Ic eom cnioht (
puer
),- Past. 49, 7.
- Hé his cnieht lǽrde: 'Sunu mín,' 287, 10.
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Se drý wearþ fǽringa geong cniht and sóna eft eald man,
- Bl. H. 175, 3.
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Hé þone cniht (
Hæsten's son
) ágef and þæt wíf,- Chr. 894; P. 86, 31.
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Ðone cniht (Alcibiades se æðeling, 19) ðurhseón,
- Bt. 32, 2; F. 116, 23.
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Cnihtas, geonglingas
puberes,
- Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 12.
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Ealle ðá cnihtas and ealle ðá mǽdena (the firstborn of Egypt), Ors. 1, 7; S. 38, 15. I a.
an unmarried man.
v. cniht-hád,
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Hit bið rihtlic líf þæt cniht þurhwunige on his cnihtháde, oð þæt he on rihtre ǽwe gewífige,
- Wlfst. 304, 20: Ll. Th. ii. 332, 28.
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Cniht clitus vel
clientulus,
- Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 32.
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Hit is niédðearf ðæt mon his hláford ondrǽde, and se cneoht his mágister,
- Past. 109, 13.
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Karl þæs cincges cniht,
- Cht. Th. 312, 33.
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Ic geann Wulfgáre mínan cnihte þæs landes,
- 545, 28: 559, 10.
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Ic geann Æðelwine mínon cnihte ðæs swurdes þe hé mé ǽr sealde,
- 561, 20.
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Ic gean Wulmǽre mínum cnihte landes for his gódra gearnunge,
- Cht. E. 238, 19.
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Cnihta parasitorum, An. Ox. 4165. II a. a man engaged in military service, a soldier :-- Byrð se cniht his swurd
portat miles gladium,
- Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 26.
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Þú sylst árleásum cnihte (
militi
) þæt þú nelt syllan sácerde,- Scint. 109, 10.
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Þá cnihtas (
the two spies in Jericho
),- Jos. 2, 14.
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Wǽron innan þám castele Oda ƀs cnihtas,
- Chr. 1087; P. 224, 4.
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Seofen hundred þes cynges cnihta,
- 1094; P. 229, 17.
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Sume of ðám cnihtan, 1083; P. 215, 9. II b. a disciple, scholar. v. leorning-cniht :-- Se hǽþena scop and his cniht
historicus ejusque breviator,
- Ors. 1, 5; S. 32, 28.
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Paulus manode his cneoht (
discipulum
),- Past. 97, 12.
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Cniht,
- 169, 16.
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Ealle þá ríce men, arcebiscopas, and leódb̃s, abbodas and eorlas, þegnas and cnihtas,
- Chr. 1086; P. 220, 2.
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Swíðe góde cnihtas, Eustatius þe iunga, and Rógeres eorles þreó sunan, and ealle þá betstboren men þe wǽron innan þisan lande,
- 1087; P. 224, 28. v.
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/41955.
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