Where does “canivete” come from?
canivete (Galician) comes from Old French cnivet, from Latin cnīfittus, from Latin cnīfus, from Frankish knīb, from Proto-Germanic knībaz, from Proto-Germanic knīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ-.
canivete (Galician): knife, penknife
Ancestry of “canivete”, step by step