English
enknit
Enknit comes from Middle English inknitten.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inknitten
- Englishearliest quotation 1882enknit
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inknitten
- Englishearliest quotation 1882enknit
Earliest quotation: 1882, The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parent: “Did you ever think how these universal stories have…”
Proto-Germanic *knuttô ‘a knot’
Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną ‘to bind into a knot’
Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan ‘to bind into a knot, tie with a knot’
Old English cnyttan ‘to tie’
Middle English knytten ‘to attach or close with a knot’
English knit
Every English word from Middle English inknitten
Today it means
verb To knit in; intwine; (by extension) to interweave
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English inknitten / enknit