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One option is the word conga.
Yes, knight is a one syllable word.
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The word is all one syllable.
"The bold knight was afraid of no-one."
Knight only has one syllable. This means the whole word is the syllable and so there are no syllable breaks.
The king dubbed a person knight by tapping him on the shoulder with a sword. The word is to "dub."
There is no one term for that, a brave solider would be a knight, or a squire.
They would need to show to a ruler that they have achieved something very high. The ruler would then take the soon to be knight's sword, make the soon to be knight get on one knee, and the ruler would pat the sword on his shoulders and give him a title. Then the one that showed great ability would become a knight.
Ladies would give a knight something to carry into a joust. Typically this was a scarf.
Nobles, who all ready had names, became knights. They had the title of "Sir" in front of their name denoting they were knights. If you think about your question it would be very confusing to have the word "knight" as a name because there were many knights. It would be like calling all football players "football players" and no one would know who was who.
I should imagine the correct term,'for a female knight,' is DAME! Such a one is Dame Vera Lynn!