קנויט
־ן
דער/די
'wick'
קנייטל
(diminutive)

ETYMOLOGY

Beider argues that the word was probably borrowed from Old Polish before the 16th c. when the vowel was actually long /oː/. [The vowel was lengthened in ENHG.]
Polish knot 'wick' (since 15th c.); from MHG knote 'knot'.
{Bańkowski 731; Beider 2015: 446-7; Boryś 240; Kluge/Seebold 2011: 508}
OE cnotta 'knot' (< PGmc ✱knuttan-); OE cnyttan 'to knot', English knit (< PGmc ✱knuttjan-); OHG chnoto, NHG Knoten; from PGmc ✱knudan- < ✱knuþo, ✱knuttaz 'knot'; from PIE ✱ǵnu- 'knode' with ton-suffix.

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

knojt {ETCP, U. Weinreich 1964: 262}

dər knɔ˯jt {ETCP, Teiuș, 46233}

knojt {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

knojt {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

NORTHEASTERN

Lithuania

knejt, knöjt, knöjtn {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}

SOUTHEASTERN

der kɲöjt {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}