CNOTTA

Old English Dictionary Entry

CNOTTA

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 CNOTTA

m. A KNOT, fastening, knitting; nexus :-- Cnotta nexus, Ælfc. Gr. 11; Som. 15, 10. Gyt hér is óðer cnotta ealswá earfoðe there is yet another knot equally difficult, Homl. Th. ii. 386, 22. To onlýsanne [MS. onlýsenne] ða fæstan cnottan [MS. cnotten] to loosen the fast knots, Th. Diplm. A. D. 1035; 334, 9: Wanl. Catal. 42, 23. Mid cnottum nexibus, Mone B. 3128: Homl. Th. ii. 28, 26. [Prompt. Chauc. knotte: Plat. knutte: Frs. knotte: Dut. knot, f; Kil. knutte: Ger. knoten, knote, m: M. H. Ger. knode, knote, m: O. H. Ger. knodo, m; Dan. knude, m. f: Swed. knut, m: Icel. knútr, m.] cnotta

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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