Knolle

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German knolle, Old High German *chnollo, from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to Old English cnotta.

Cognate with Old English cnoll, Dutch knol, English knoll.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈknɔlə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlə
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Noun[edit]

Knolle f (genitive Knolle, plural Knollen, diminutive Knöllchen n)

  1. bulb
  2. tuber

Declension[edit]

Declension of Knolle [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Knolle die Knollen
genitive einer der Knolle der Knollen
dative einer der Knolle den Knollen
accusative eine die Knolle die Knollen

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Knollen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
  • Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012

Further reading[edit]

  • “Knolle” in Duden online
  • “Knolle” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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