knit
/nɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.66 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "to knit a stocking"
- "The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers."
- "I knitted swatches in a cable pattern to see how the different hapazome tachniques and yarn weights affected the appearance of the cables."
- "Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front."
- "The fight for survival knitted the men closely together."
- "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage,"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gnod-der.? Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu Proto-Indo-European *ǵnu-tonder.? Proto-Germanic *knuttô Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan Old English cnyttan Middle English knytten English knit Inherited from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan, from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną, from *knuttô + *-janą. Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nɪt/
- British English: /nɪt/