gnocchi

English

WOTD – 19 January 2012    

Gnocchi in a tomato sauce.

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), from nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), from Lombardic *knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukōn (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneu- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɲɒk.i/, X-SAMPA: /"JQk.i/
• (US) enPR: nyōʹkē, IPA: /ˈɲoʊ.ki/, X-SAMPA: /"JoU.ki/

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Noun

gnocchi

1. Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

Translations

pasta-like dumplings

• Finnish: gnocchi (fi)
• French: gnocchis (fr) m pl
• German: Nocken, Nockerln
• Italian: gnocchi (it) m pl

• Russian: ньоки (ru) (nʹoki)
• Serbo-Croatian: njoki (sh) pl
• Spanish: ñoquis (es) m pl

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian

Noun

gnocchi

1. gnocchi

   Söin gnoccheja lounaaksi.

   I ate gnocchi for lunch.

Declension

Declension of gnocchi (type risti) singular plural nominative gnocchi gnocchit genitive gnocchin gnocchien partitive gnocchia gnoccheja accusative gnocchi gnocchin gnocchit inessive gnocchissa gnoccheissa elative gnocchista gnoccheista illative gnocchiin gnoccheihin adessive gnocchilla gnoccheilla ablative gnocchilta gnoccheilta allative gnocchille gnoccheille essive gnocchina gnoccheina translative gnocchiksi gnoccheiksi instructive – gnocchein abessive gnocchitta gnoccheitta comitative – gnoccheineen

Usage notes

Italian plural word has been adopted into Finnish as singular.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɲɔk.ki/, X-SAMPA: /"JOk.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m pl

1. Plural form of gnocco
2. gnocchi