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CNAPA

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
CNAPA, cnafa, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§401;
a boy, young man, KNAVE; puer, juvenis, adolescens
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  • He betǽhte hys cnapan and se cnapa hit ofslóh

    he gave it [a calf] to his young man and the young man slew it

    • Gen. 18, 7.

  • Heó sealde ðam cnapan drincan

    dedit puero bibere

    • 21, 19:
    • 22, 19:
    • 42, 22:
    • 48, 16:
    • Homl. Th. i. 186, 14.

  • Ic hæbbe sumne cnapan

    habeo quemdam puerum

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 19, 27.

  • Abraham férde mid twám cnapum to fyrlenum lande

    Abraham ducens secum duos juvenes abiit in locum

    • Gen. 22, 3, 5.

  • Syle cnapan [cnafan C.] ðínum

    da puero tuo

    • Ps. Spl. 85, 15.

  • Ðæt wíf wearþ wráþ ðam cnapan

    mulier molesta erat adolescenti

    • Gen. 39, 10.
a servant; servus
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  • He hét his cnapan behealdan to ðære sǽ

    he ordered his servant to look towards the sea

    • Bd. de nat. rerum;
    • Wrt. popl. science 18, 23;
    • Lchdm. iii. 276, 24.
Etymology
Wyc. knaue-child a male child
Piers P. Chauc. knave
Laym. cnaue
Orm. cnapess, gen
Plat. knape, knawe
O. Sax. knapo, m.
Frs. knape
O. Frs. knapa, knappa, m.
Dut. knaap, m.
Kil. knape
Ger. M. H. Ger. knabe, m.
O. H. Ger. knabo, knappo
Swed. knape, m.
Icel. knapi, m.
Derived forms
þeów-cnapa.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “CNAPA.” 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/6421.

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