Meaning & History
Derived from old Lithuanian kunoti meaning "to fight, to battle, to combat". Also compare the modern Lithuanian noun kūnas meaning "body".In literature, Kunotas is the name of a prince in the 1928 story Kunigaikštis Kunotas (which means Prince Kunotas in English), which was written by the Lithuanian novelist and poet Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882-1954).