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Canute
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canute
English
Etymology
en enm Canut, from en xno *Canut, xno Kenut (compare la-med Canūtus), from en non Knútr, possibly originally a byname meaning "knot".Porck Thijs Mann Jodie 2014 How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut) NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution 67 2 237–243 10.1075/nowele.67.2.05por.
Pronunciation
en /kəˈn(j)uːt/
Proper noun
en historical en male Germanic languages used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.
Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway.
en town s/Oklahoma.
Derived terms
en Canutian Canutish Canutism Knutsford
Translations
Male given name
Danish: da Knud
Dutch: nl Knoet
Faroese: fo Knútur
Finnish: fi Nuutti
German: de Knut m
Greenlandic: kl Kunuuti
Icelandic: is Knútur
Latin: la Canutus
Lithuanian: lt Knutas
Middle English: enm Canut
Norwegian: no Knut
Old Norse: non Knútr
Polish: pl Kanut
Portuguese: pt Canuto
Russian: ru Кнуд m
Spanish: es Canuto
Swedish: sv Knut
References
Anagrams
en acentu Ceutan uncate