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English : habitational name from Knightley in Staffordshire, named in Old English as ‘the wood or clearing of the retainers’, from cnihtÄ, genitive plural of cnihta ‘servant’, ‘retainer’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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Abbreviation of Lynnette who accompanied Sir Gareth on a knightly quest in Arthurian legend;Irish...
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English, German, Dutch, and Jewish : from the personal name Michael, ultimately from Hebrew Micha-el ‘Who is like God?’. This was borne by various minor Biblical characters and by one of the archangels, the protector of Israel (Daniel 10:13, 12:1; Rev. 12:7). In Christian tradition, Michael was regarded as the warrior archangel, conqueror of Satan, and the personal name was correspondingly popular throughout Europe, especially in knightly and military families. In English-speaking countries, this surname is also found as an Anglicized form of several Greek surnames having Michael as their root, for example Papamichaelis ‘Michael the priest’ and patronymics such as Michaelopoulos.
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Abbreviation of Lynnette who Accompanied Sir Gareth on a Knightly Quest in Arthurian Legend; Waterfall; A Cascade; Lake; Good Looking; Pretty
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Welsh given name. In Arthurian legend Lynette accompanied Sir Gareth on a knightly quest.
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English : status name from Middle English knyghte ‘knight’, Old English cniht ‘boy’, ‘youth’, ‘serving lad’. This word was used as a personal name before the Norman Conquest, and the surname may in part reflect a survival of this. It is also possible that in a few cases it represents a survival of the Old English sense into Middle English, as an occupational name for a domestic servant. In most cases, however, it clearly comes from the more exalted sense that the word achieved in the Middle Ages. In the feudal system introduced by the Normans the word was applied at first to a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier. Hence it came to denote a man of some substance, since maintaining horses and armor was an expensive business. As feudal obligations became increasingly converted to monetary payments, the term lost its precise significance and came to denote an honorable estate conferred by the king on men of noble birth who had served him well. Knights in this last sense normally belonged to ancient noble families with distinguished family names of their own, so that the surname is more likely to have been applied to a servant in a knightly house or to someone who had played the part of a knight in a pageant or won the title in some contest of skill.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the rider or knight’. See also McKnight.
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Abbreviation of Lynnette who accompanied Sir Gareth on a knightly quest in Arthurian legend;Irish...
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adv.
In a manner becoming a knight.
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Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
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Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
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A token or badge of knightly rank.