Where does “Knick” come from?

Knick (German) comes from German knicken, from Middle Low German knicken, from Proto-Germanic knikkoną — to fold, snap.

Knick (German): crease; A wall of shrubberies, dividing a rural...

Definitions

  1. crease; A wall of shrubberies, dividing a rural...

Ancestry of “Knick”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanknickento crease; to fold; to bend; to be creased; to be...
2Middle Low Germanknickento bend; to snap
3Proto-Germanicknikkonąto fold, snap

Words derived from “Knick”

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