Could
Knave be related to ....
However,
knave here relates to a Germanic word for
boy . The
g and
j can alternate in Arabic
, but
g and
kh don't in either Hebrew or Arabic. The
kh guttural is apparently the sound behind the
kn phonogram as indicated
here. These whimsical word lists might do better if they were sound-based, rather than spelling-based. The words share status as epithets with similar meaning, but that should not fuel a goose-chase through historical phonological processes in search of just the right combination to create a shared origin.
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