cnivet

Old French

Alternative forms

canivet

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cnīfittus, from *cnīfus +‎ -ittus, from Frankish *knīf (“knife”).

Noun

cnivet m (oblique plural cnivez or cnivetz, nominative singular cnivez or cnivetz, nominative plural cnivet)[1][2]

knife

Descendants

Middle French: canivet
→ Middle English: kneuet, knyvet
→ Galician: canivete

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (canivet)
- cnivet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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