Knabe

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  knave, boy, lad
 * 2) * Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres
 * 1) * Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

Usage notes

 * used to be the most common term for “boy” until about 1930. As the word was restricted to written style and had no basis in any regional dialects, it has since been replaced with more native (throughout the language area) or  (alternatively in southern Germany and Austria).
 * It still occurs in compounds such as and.