Where does “knabe” come from?

knabe (Middle High German) comes from Old High German knabo, from Proto-West Germanic knabō — alternative reconstruction of *knappō.

Ancestry of “knabe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanknaboboy
2Proto-West Germanicknabōalternative reconstruction of *knappō

Words derived from “knabe”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic knabō →Every word from Old High German knabo →