knit

B1 Topic:Space, Position & Direction

US /ˈnɪt/ UK /nɪt/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like neat /ɪ/ vs /iː/

Freq #14485

Meanings

1

verb
To make clothing or fabric by joining yarn into loops with needles.

She likes to knit a scarf during the long winter evenings.
2

verb
To join people or things closely together.

The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
3

verb
(Of broken bones) to grow back together and heal.

I'll go skiing again after my bones knit.

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Forms knitsknittedknittingunknit

Derived forms beknitclose-knitenknithandknitinknitinterknitknitaholicknitalongknitathonknitbackknitboneknitlike

Related forms tricotweave

Etymology

From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

knytten Middle English cnyttan Old English *knuttijan Proto-West Germanic *knutjaną Proto-Germanic

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# knit

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /ˈnɪt/
**IPA (UK):** /nɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 14485

## Meanings
1. To make clothing or fabric by joining yarn into loops with needles.
2. To join people or things closely together.
3. (Of broken bones) to grow back together and heal.

## Examples
- She likes to knit a scarf during the long winter evenings.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- I'll go skiing again after my bones knit.

## Derived Forms
- beknit
- close-knit
- enknit
- handknit
- inknit
- interknit
- knitaholic
- knitalong
- knitathon
- knitback
- knitbone
- knitlike

## Related Forms
- tricot
- weave

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: knytten
- Root: cnyttan
- Root: *knuttijan
- Root: *knutjaną

## Etymology
From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

## AI Etymology
Knit comes from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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