Re: People who want to rule the world (or at least Usenet)

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:54:21 GMT, John Atkinson
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sci.lang:

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[<Knuth>]
> I presume it's cognate with Canute, as in the king?

German borrowing of Scand. <Knud> ~ <Knut> ~ <Knútr>,
becoming a patronymic byname and then a surname; I wouldn't
use 'cognate' that way, but it is the same name. (<Canute>,
so far as I know, is just an Englished version of the
Latinization <Canutus>.)

Brian
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