Where does “knowledge” come from?
Knowledge derives from Middle English knowleche, itself from Middle English knowen, which comes from Old English cnāwan, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European ǵneh₃-.
knowledge (English): The fact of knowing about something; general...
Definitions
- The fact of knowing about something; general...
Ancestry of “knowledge”, step by step
Words derived from “knowledge”
- knowledgeable
- foreknowledge
- knowledgeably
- unknowledgeable
- nonknowledge
- metaknowledge
- counterknowledge
- preknowledge
- unknowledge
- knowledgeless
- knowledgeableness
- antiknowledge
- misknowledge
- knowledgeful
- interknowledge
- unknowledgeably
- self-knowledge
- beknowledge
- meta-knowledge
- ethnoknowledge
- ノレッジ
- ナレッジ
- knowledgelike
- book-knowledge