Chnüüw

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German chniu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with German Knie, Dutch knie, English knee, Icelandic hné, Swedish knä. From the same Proto-Indo-European root as Albanian gju, Old Armenian ծունգք (cungkʿ), Irish glúin, Welsh glin, Ancient Greek γόνῠ (gónu), Sanskrit जानु (jānu), Persian (zânu), Latin genū, Tocharian B keni (“knees”).

Noun

Chnüüw n

(Uri, anatomy) knee

References

Abegg, Emil (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 26.

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