Old English cnif

← Old English seax (mention)

← Old English sax (mention)

← Old English meteseax (mention)

← Old English metsax (mention)

← German Messer (cognate)

← German Kneif (cognate)

← Middle Dutch cnijf (cognate)

← Proto-Germanic *knībaz (derived)

← Middle Low German knīf (cognate)

← Dutch knijf (cognate)

← Old Norse knífr (cognate)