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Knowles (/ n oʊ l z / [1]) is an English surname of Old English origin.This is a locality name meaning 'at the knoll,' a hill or summit, derived from Old English word cnolle or Middle English knol, [2] meaning hilltop and thus describes a person who lived at such a place.
Etymonline, or Online Etymology Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper. [1]
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's , will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.
List of English words of Brittonic origin; Lists of English words of Celtic origin; List of English words of Chinese origin; List of English words of Czech origin; List of English words of Dravidian origin (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) List of English words of Dutch origin. List of English words of Afrikaans origin; List of South African ...
AHD: American Heritage Dictionary; FD: The Free Dictionary – ONLINE; MW: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary – ONLINE; OED: Oxford English Dictionary – ONLINE; RHD: Random House Dictionary – ONLINE; NI: Webster's New International Dictionary; SC: Strong's Concordance; WNW: Webster's New World Dictionary: 3rd edition
Non-loanwords Proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon; How words have been loaned from various languages to (many) other languages: Australian Aboriginal — African — Afrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — Chinese — Czech — Dutch — Etruscan — French — German — Greek — Hawaiian — Hebrew — Hindi — Hungarian — Irish — Italian — Japanese ...
Quite a few of these words can further trace their origins back to a Germanic source (usually Frankish [1]), making them cognate with many native English words from Old English, yielding etymological twins. Many of these are Franco-German words, or French words of Germanic origin. [2]