Knolle
German
Etymology
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
Noun
Knolle f (genitive Knolle, plural Knollen, diminutive Knöllchen n)
Declension
Further reading
- “Knolle” in Duden online
References
- ^ 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
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