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Klu  *clyft, cleft, clift,  kluft,, ‘cleft, notch, chasm.’  ,, ‘knowing, prudent, shrewd,’ from kluoc (g), ‘fine, pretty, tender, superb, brave, polite, prudent, sly’; in  not recorded, whether by chance or no is not known. It is thought to have been borrowed from, although the word in the non- languages has a final k, klôk,  klock, ‘prudent, brave, great, corpulent’ (not found in ;  klókr, ‘prudent, cunning,’ is supposed to be a  loan-word). No clue to an etymological explanation of the can be discovered.  ', ',, ‘slump, lump,’ only; from the   klamp,  klomp, ;   clump. klumba,, ‘club,’ with a different labial, also a variant klubba; klubbu-fótr, whence the  ‘club-foot.’ Further references have not been discovered. .   ,, ‘clew,’ from *klüngel, klüngelîn,  chlungilîn, , ‘clew,’  of  chlunga, , ‘clew’; if ng be a suffix, as in , the word may be allied to ,  chliuwa (root klu, Aryan glu), in which case it would be brought into connection with other terms; it is, however, more probably allied to  to cling, from  clingan, ‘to cling to, hold fast, adhere.’   ,, ‘clot, tassel,’ only; allied to  klungeler, ‘tassel,’ glunke, , ‘dangling curl,’ glunkern, ‘to swing, dangle.’   ,, ‘pincers,’ from kluppe, , ‘tongs, barnacles, splinter,’  kluppa, , ‘tongs.’ , like    ‘tongs,’ is also derived from  kliuban, ‘to split, cleave’; unfortunately correspondences in other dialects are wanting ( *klubjô?). ,, and.   ,, ‘boy, lad, youth,’ from , late chnabo, , ‘boy’; also ‘youth, fellow, servant,’ with the originally  variants,  ,  knappe,  chnappo ( chnabo and chnappo are related like  and ). cnapa, knapo, and  knape, ‘attendant, squire,’ present some difficulties compared with  cnafa,  knave. Equally obscure is the relation of the entire class to the root ken, Aryan gen ( genus, gi-gn-o, γένος, γι-γν-ομαι,  &c.), with which some etymologists would like to connect it; if it were allied,  chnëht (kn-ëht) also might perhaps be compared.  ,, ‘to crack,’ from knacken, gnacken, ‘to split, crack,’ wanting in ;  knack,  cnak, ‘crack,’  knakkr;  , ‘crack,’  not yet found. To the same root knoka,  cnocian,  to knock, formed by gradation, seem to belong. The words are based on an imitative root which is peculiar to.  ,, ‘sharp report, explosion,’ only; allied to  er-knëllen, ‘to resound.’   cnyll, cnell, , ‘signal given by a bell,’  knell.   ', ',, ‘father,’ from genanne, gnanne, from genamne, , ‘of the same name’ (for  ge-   and ), ‘namesake.’ Used even in  by sons addressing their father or grandfather. <section end="Knan" /> ,, ‘scanty,’ only; wanting in  and ; probably from , for gehnapp. hneppr, ‘narrow.’ <section begin="Knappe" /> ,, ‘squire, attendant,’ from knappe, , ‘youth, bachelor, servant, squire,’  chnappo, ; in the rest of the  languages there are no cognates pointing to  *knabba; two variants of the assumed *knabba are mentioned under , where the further etymological question is discussed. also with,  laigân, ‘to lick,’ with  liccian. <section end="Knappe" /> ,, ‘to make scarce, hobble, nibble,’ only, from  knappen, ‘to eat, lay hold of quickly.’ — <section begin="Knappsack" /> , ‘knapsack,’ from knap-zack, ‘saddlebag,’ whence probably also  knapsack. <section end="Knappsack" /> ,, ‘to creak,’ from knarren, gnarren, ‘to creak, snarl’; a recent onomatopoetic term like  and. <section begin="Knaster" /> ,, ‘best tobacco,’ borrowed at the beginning of the 18th from  knaster, kanaster, , ‘canister tobacco,’ which comes from  canastro, ‘basket’ (  and  canistrum, κάναστρον). <section end="Knaster" /> <section begin="Knäuel" /> , and, ‘clew,’ from  kniuwel, kniulîn, kniul, , ‘small clew or ball’; the n by differentiation represents l on account of the final l (see );  kliuwel, kliuwelîn, dimins. of kliuwe,, ‘clew, ball’;<section end="Knäuel" />