Knabe

knabe German Etymology From de gmh knabe, from de goh knabo, goh chnabo, from de gmw-pro *knabō, cognate with English en knave. Pronunciation de /ˈknaːbə/ de De-Knabe.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m.weak ^chen,^lein,^elein de dated now _ literary humorous or South German Austria Swiss and United States knave, boy, lad de 1782 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Erlkönig Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres Usage notes de Knabe used to be the most common term for “boy” until about 1930.Knabe, Junge 20 As the word was restricted to written style and had no basis in any regional dialects, it has since been replaced with more native de Junge (throughout Germany) or de Bub (in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). It still occurs in compounds such as de Prügelknabe and de Chorknabe. Declension m.weak Derived terms de Chorknabe choirboy de Lustknabe catamite de Musterknabe goody-goody de Prügelknabe whipping boy Descendants eo knabo 1 csb knôp 1 References Further reading de Children