ken-1

    ken-1

    English meaning: to press, pinch, etc..

    Deutsche Übersetzung: as basis for extensions the meaning “zusamendrũcken, kneifen, zusamenknicken; Zusamengedrũcktes, Geballtes”

    Note: Root ken-1 : “to press, pinch, etc.” derived from Root gen- : “to pinch, pluck, press, etc.”.

    Note: meaning-Umfang as by gen-.

    Material: knek- (only germO.N.): O.Ice. hnakki, hnakkr m. “ nape “ (Nor. nakk also “ mountain top, Kuppe”), O.H.G. hnac, - ckes “ nape, acme, apex “, bO.Ir. nacken “bone”, changing through ablaut O.E. hnecca “ nape, Hinterkopf”, M.L.G. necke ds., M.H.G. genicke “Genick”; with the meaning “knicken” here Ice. hnakki “Anker”, Nor. nakke “ small eiserner hook”, nøkia “crook, bend”, M.Eng. nōk, Eng. nook “ angle, point, edge” (O.Ice. hnekkja “zurũcktreiben, hemmen”, actually “ to press together “?). knes- perhaps in O.H.G. hnel, M.H.G. nel(le) “cusp, peak, acme, apex, Scheitel”, O.H.G. hnol “ acme, apex “, O.E. hnoll ‘scheitel” (*hnezlá-, hnuzlá-?) and Ltv. knese “club, cudgel”. A i-basis in kneigʷh-, knei-b- “ incline “? (see there). u-basis kneu- and extensions: M.Ir. cnū, gen. cnō (*knūs, *knuu̯os), Welsh cneuen, pl. cnau, M.Corn. knyfan, M.Bret. knoen “Nuß”, Gaul. *knou̯ü; derived M.Ir. cnuas “Nũsse; harvest”; with d-suffix O.Ice. hnot, O.E. hnutu, O.H.G. (h)nuz “Nuß”; with k-suffix Lat. nux, -cis “Nuß” (“Nuß” also actually “ pellet, globule, clots “); Lohmann ZceltPh. 19, 62 ff. kneu-b-: Lith. kniùbti ‘sich bũcken”, Ltv. kn̨ubt “einbiegen”; Mod.Ice. hnypra sig saman ‘sich zusammenkauern”, hnypur “kauernde position “. kneu-d-: Nor. nut “knag in wood, mountaintop, mountain peak, summit “, O.Ice. hnūtr m., hnūta f. ‘swelling, lump, growth, ankle”, Swiss nossen m. “Felszacke, protrusion”. kneu-g-, -k-: O.Ir. cnocc, Ir. cnoc (*knukkos), Welsh cnwch (and as Lw. from dem Ir. also cnwc) (ablaut.cnuch “joint, coitus”), O.Bret. cnoch “tumulus”; O.Ice. hnūka ‘sich zusammenkrũmmen”, hnokinn “ writhed, crooked, humped “, hnykill ‘swelling, lump, growth, knot”, Nor. nykkja “bend, crook (e.g. einen Eisennagel); hervorragen”, Mod.Ice. hnjūkr, hnūkr “round mountain top “, Nor. dial. nykkla n. “ ball, tangle, knot “, Mod.Ice. hnokki m., Nor. nokka f. “ small Eisenhaken”, O.E. hnocc “penis” (Eng. nock “ incision “ is Swe. Lw.), M.Du. nocke “ incision in a arrowhead “, N.Ger. nock, nocke “hervorstehendes end from etwas”, O.E. ge(*h)nycned “gerunzelt”, Ger. dial. nock, nocken “ small hill; Mehlkloß” (also O.Ice. hnykkia “an sich reißen”, perhaps from “ to press together “?); besides nock steht Ger. dial. knock “hill” (also in ganzen ũbrigen Gmc. Sprachraum), das above S. 372 Withte to erwähnen gewesen wäre (compare also O.N.knjūkr, knykill besides hnjūkr, hnykill), but also secondary Gmc. neologism to nock sein could, and das kn- perhaps from words, as Knollen, Knopf, Knorren, KNOTE n, Knũppel etc. bezogen have kann; compare Weisgerber Rhein. Vierteljahrsbl. 1939, 34 ff.; compare Ltv. knaũk”is “toddler; transom am langen Sensenstiel” and Gk. κνυζόν ἀέρα ἐπινέφελον, κνυζώσω συσπάσω Hes.; Toch. A k”ñuk “Genick”. kneu-p-: Ltv. kńūpt “zusammengekrũmmt lie”, Lith. kniū́ poti ds.; O.Ice. hnūfa “abstumpfen, stutzen”. kneu-t-: O.Ice. hnoða n. “ ball, tangle, knot “. kondo- “Geballtes”: O.Ind. kanda- m. “tuber, bulb”, kandúka- m. ‘spielball”, kanduka- n. “pillow, cushion”; Gk. κόνδοι κεραῖαι. ἀστράγαλοι Hes., κόνδυλος “Knochengelenk the Finger, toggle, fist, slap in the face, box on the ear, bulge; bead; lip; torus; wreath; roll; bulb of Zahnfleisches”, κονδύλωμα ‘swelling, lump, growth”; Lith. kánduolas m. “Kern”.

    References: WP. I 390 ff., WH. II 191 f., J. Loth RC. 40, 366.