Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A surname. · A hamlet in Ampfield parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4023). · A hamlet in North Curry parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3025). · A hamlet in Broad Chalke parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0225).
* As a German surname, from the noun Knabe (“boy, young unmarried man”). This is also found as the variant Knap. * As an English surname related to the above, from the noun knave, similar to Nave. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English knappe (“hillock”), from Old English cnæpp (“summit”), probably from the same source as Icelandic hnappur (“button”). * As a Jewish surname, from the German adjective knapp (“scarce, tight”).
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