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CNEÓ

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
CNEÓ, cneów, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §7; §52; §88; §89; §140; §169; §173; §232; §264; §265; §266; §285; §310; §361; §363;
a KNEE; genu
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  • Ðæt he on cneó lecge honda and heáfod

    that he lays his hands and head on his knee

    • Exon. 77a;
    • Th. 289, 3;
    • Wand. 42.
  • Me synt cneówu unhále

    genua mea infirmata sunt

    • Ps. Th. 108, 24.
  • Cneówu

    genua

    • Wrt. Voc. 283, 68.
  • Hie on cneówum sǽton

    they sat on their knees

    • Cd. 181;
    • Th. 227, 2;
    • Dan. 180;
    • Chr. 979;
    • Erl. 129, 22;
    • Ors. 3, 9;
    • Bos.68, 35;
    • Exon. 48a;
    • Th. 164, 19;
    • Gú. 1014.
  • Cneó bígeþ

    bends the knees

    • Exon. 62b;
    • Th. 229, 23;
    • Ph. 459.
  • Cneó bégean scolden

    genua flectere deberent

    • Bd. 3, 17;
    • S. 544, 39, col. 2;
    • Elen. Kmbl. 1693;
    • El. 848;
    • Exon. 63a;
    • Th. 232, 29;
    • Ph. 514: 112b;
    • Th. 431, 9;
    • Rä. 45, 5.
a generation, relationship; generatio, propinquitatis gradus
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  • On ánum cneówe

    in generatione una

    • Ps. Th. 108, 13.
  • Óþ hund cneówa [MS. cnea]

    to a hundred generations

    • Exon. 124a;
    • Th. 476, 16;
    • Ruin. 8
  • Binnan cneówe

    within relationship

      L. E. G. 12; Th. i. 174, 25.
  • In ðam þriddan cneówe mid Crécum mót man wif niman, in fiftan mid Rómánum in tertio propinquitatis gradu apud Græcos viro licet uxorem ducere, in quinto apud Romanos, L. Ecg. C. 28; Th. ii. 152, note h.

    Binnan ðam feórþan cneówe

    within the fourth degree of relationship,

    • L. Eth. vi. 12;
    • Th. i. 318, 15.
Etymology
Piers P. knowes knees
Laym. cneo
Orm. cnewwe
Plat. knee knee, generation
O. Sax. knio, kneo, n. knee:
O. Frs. kni, kne, n. knee, degree of relationship
Dut. Kil. knie, f. knee
Ger. M. H. Ger. knie, n.
O. H. Ger. kniu, kneo, n.
Goth. kniu, n.
Dan. knæ, n
Swed. knä, n.
Icel. kné, n.
Lat. genu, n.
Grk. γόνυ, n.
Sansk. jānu, m. n.
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v.  cneów.
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  • CNEÓ, n.