Re: some stewpid questions

 Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
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> > "think" being *kniht, and _cniht_ is "boy" in Old English isn't it?
> >
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> It looks more to me like an old orthography of "knight" (though I may be
> influenced by Quenya where "ht" is /xt/ :)) ). Did "knight" ever mean "boy" in
> Old English?
I'm pretty sure it did up until the Middle English period...but I have no
dictionaries of Old English to check this out in...I'm just relying on memory.

Elliott Lash