gnoco

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Venetian

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Etymology

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Of Germanic origin, perhaps from Lombard knohhil (“knot in wood”), perhaps akin to Proto-West Germanic *knokō (“joint”) (modern English knuckle).[1]

Noun

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gnoco m (plural gnochi)

  1. dumpling (small)
  2. lump, clot

Descendants

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  • → Italian: gnocco

References

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  1. ^ “gnocchi”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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