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Where does “hnesce” come from?

hnesce (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic hnaskwī, from Proto-Germanic hnaskuz, from Proto-Indo-European knēs-.

Ancestry of “hnesce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanichnaskwīsoft
2Proto-Germanichnaskuzsoft, tender, yielding
3Proto-Indo-Europeanknēs-—

Words derived from “hnesce”

  • nesh
  • neshness
  • neshen
  • nesch
  • nesh
  • nesche
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