Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots. · To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc. · To unite closely; to knit together. · To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops. · A tangled clump of hair or similar. · A maze-like pattern. · A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”). See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus. * (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the logline (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.
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- Inherited-form mentionknotteenm
- Inherited-form mentioncnottaang
- Inherited-form mention*knottōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*knuttôgem-pro
- Derivation mention*gnod-ine-pro · to bind
- Cognate mentionknotogoh
- Cognate mentionKnotende
- Cognate mentionknotnl
- Cognate mentionKnüttends
- Cognate mentionknútrnon
- Cognate mentionknudeda
- Cognate mentionknutsv
- Cognate mentionknuteno
- Cognate mentionknúturfo
- Cognate mentionhnúturis
- Cognate mentionnōdusla
- Doublet mentionknouten
- Doublet mentionnodeen
- Doublet mentionnodusen
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