Where does “Kniff” come from?

Kniff (German) comes from German kneifen, from German kneipen, from Middle Low German knīpen, from Old Saxon knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic knīpan, from Proto-Germanic knīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ-.

Kniff (German): crease; trick

Definitions

  1. crease; trick

Ancestry of “Kniff”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germankneifento pinch, to squeeze; to chicken out; to back...
2Germankneipenarchaic or dialectal Northern form of kneifen; to...
3Middle Low Germanknīpento squeeze
4Old Saxonknīpan—
5Proto-West Germanicknīpanto pinch
6Proto-Germanicknīpanąto pinch
7Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneybʰ-—

Words derived from “Kniff”

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