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Where does “knowleche” come from?

knowleche (Middle English) comes from Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan, from Proto-West Germanic knāan, from Proto-Germanic knēaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneh₃- — to know.

Ancestry of “knowleche”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishknowento know
2Old Englishcnāwanto know, perceive, recognise; to know, recognise,...
3Proto-West Germanicknāanto recognise, to know
4Proto-Germanicknēanąto know, recognise, understand
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneh₃-to know

Words derived from “knowleche”

  • knowledge
  • knowledgeable
  • foreknowledge
  • knowledgeably
  • unknowledgeable
  • nonknowledge
  • metaknowledge
  • counterknowledge
  • preknowledge
  • unknowledge
  • knowledgeless
  • knowledgeableness
  • antiknowledge
  • misknowledge
  • knowledgeful
  • interknowledge
  • unknowledgeably
  • book-knowledge
  • meta-knowledge
  • ethnoknowledge
  • knowledgelessness
  • beknowledge
  • self-knowledge
  • knowledgelike
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