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\ \ [11] The words for ‘know’ in the various Indo-European languages mostly belong to one large many-branched family which goes back ultimately to the base *gn-, which also produced English can and ken. Its Latin offspring was nōscere, from which English gets cognition, incognito, note, quaint, etc. From its Greek branch come English agnostic and diagnosis.
\ \ And in other Indo-European languages it is represented by, among others, Sanskrit jānátiknow’, Old Irish gnáthknown’, and Russian znat’. In the other Germanic languages it is the immediate relatives of English can (German and Dutch kennen, Swedish känna, Danish kende) that are used for ‘know’; know itself, which was originally a reduplicated form, survives only in English.
\ \ The -ledge of knowledge [13] was probably originally the suffix -lockaction, process’, which otherwise survives only in wedlock. Acknowledge [15] is derived from knowledge.
\ \ Cf.AGNOSTIC, CAN, COGNITION, DIAGNOSIS, INCOGNITO, KEN, KNOWLEDGE, NOTE, QUAINT, RECOGNIZE

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