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Kna  chliuwelîn, of chliuwa, chliwa,, ‘ball, clew’;  cleówe, clŷwe, ,  cleewe,  clew; also  cleówen, clŷwen,  like  klûwen,  kluwen, ‘skein.’  also kliwi, kliuwi, ,  kliuwe, , ‘clew.’ A richly developed nominal stem peculiar to West ; the  form is probably *kliwi (kliujis),  or *kliujô, ; the root klū̆, by gradation klē̆u, appears also perhaps in  ( *klêwa), which in that case was so called from its contracting;   gluere, ‘to contract,’ glûma, ‘husk,’ also  glâus, ‘bale,’ hence Aryan root glu. glŏbus and glŏmus are not connected with this word.   ,, ‘button, pommel,’ from knouf, , ‘pommel (of a sword), pinnacle,’ also a  knoufel, knöufel, ,  *chnouf not recorded;  *knaups is also indicated by  knoop, , ‘button, knob.’ A  graded form *knupps may likewise be inferred from the cognates discussed under , which see.   ,, ‘niggard,’ only, probably from  knûȥ, ‘impudent, daring, haughty (towards the poor).’   ,, ‘branch, peg, moustache, knuckle,’ from knębel, ,  knębil, ‘crossbeam, girder, crossbar, cord, fetter, knuckle’;  knevel, , ‘packing stick’;  knefill, , ‘stake, stick’;  *knabils is wanting. Considering the relation of *nabala,, ‘navel,’ to  ὀμφαλός, we may assume for  *knabils, a root gombh (gonbh) in the non- languages ( γόμφος, ‘plug, nail, wedge’; this word, however, is usually connected with the cognates of  ). — It is still doubtful whether in  ‘(twisted) moustache,’ first recorded in  and borrowed from  and, is of a different origin, i.e. connected with  cęnep,  kenep,  kanpr ( *kanipa-), ‘moustache,’  canefbeen, ‘cheek-bone.’   ,, ‘servant,’ from knëht,  chnëht, , ‘boy, youth, fellow, man, squire,’ often also ‘hero’;   cniht, , ‘boy, youth, man capable of bearing arms, hero,’  knight; probably a West  word, unknown to  and  ( knegt and  knekt are borrowed). The same variety of meanings in West words is found in  and  ( also  mago, ‘son, boy, man, champion,’ see too ). However probable its close connection with  and  may be, yet it is not possible to define it strictly. is more probably allied to the root ken, from Aryan gen ( genus, γένος, gi-gn-o, γίγνομας), than, because a suffix -ëht exists in.  ,, ‘to nip,’ only, a Phonetic rendering of  knîpen, adopted by the written language. .  ,, ‘pincers, gripes,’ only, of obscure origin; its cognate relation to  can only be assumed, since an older connecting link between it and , ‘tavern,’ is wanting;   was a low tavern. Is it related to knijp,, ‘narrowness, embarrassment’? or rather knijp,, ‘bird-snare, brothel’?  , ‘to pinch,’ early,   knîpen (see also );  knijpen, ‘to nip, twitch’; probably not allied to  hnîpan, hnipian, ‘to bow,’ but to a root hnîp, ‘to nip,’ not recorded in , from which also  nipen,  to nip, are derived; kn initially may be explained from *gahnîpan. The pre- root knîb appears in knìbti, ‘to pick, pluck,’ knèbti, ‘to nip.’ If the  word is unconnected with  knijpen on account of the initial sound, we might assume a root knîb, gnîb ( gnýbti, ‘to nip,’ gnýbis, ‘nip’), though this too is not recorded in. ,, ‘to knead,’ from the  knëten,  chnëtan;   and  kneden, ‘to knead,’  cnëdan,  cneden,  to knead; a  *knidan, or rather *knudan , ‘to knead,’ may be assumed;  has only a  knoða, pointing to  *knudan. Since t,, , and  d may have originated in t owing to earlier positions of the accents ( ,  fœder, with  pater,  πατήρ), gnet may be regarded as the pre- root. gnetą, gmesti, ‘to crush, knead.’ ,, ‘to crack,’ only; from  knikken, ‘to burst, split, crack’;   to knick, ‘to crack.’  ,, ‘knee,’ from knie, kniu ( knies, kniewes),  chniu, chneo ( chnëwes, chniwes), , ‘knee’;   knie, ,  cneó ( cneowes), ,  cnee,  knee;  kniu ( kniwis), , ‘knee’; a common O. and  word with the  meaning ‘knee,’ which also belongs to the allied Aryan words; genu-, gonu-, gnu- are the Aryan