Where does “knīpan” come from?

knīpan (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic knīpan, from Proto-Germanic knīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ-.

Ancestry of “knīpan”, step by step

knīpan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic knīpan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicknīpanto pinch
2Proto-Germanicknīpanąto pinch
3Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneybʰ-—

via Proto-Germanic *knīpan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*knīpan—

Words derived from “knīpan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵneybʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic knīpaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic knīpan →