Warrior Class

[Justïn]

So, where does Knight and Knecht come from?  Can you trace those 
sources and backwords construct it using Proto-Germanic and predicting 
what the change would have been, if the Goths followed the same 
etymological patterns....etc.?  Does Icelandic use a "knight" cognate 
or another word/compound word altogether?

Granted, there's no way of assuming that had the Goths survived to 
establish feudalism; they would have used a word that remotely related 
to "Knight," but hypothetically speaking...

After all, it really depends on how much the person asking really wants 
to honour chronology.  If it were up to me Gothic would be 
reconstructed in its entirety and there'd be neologisms for SUVs and 
iPods.

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