knoll
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
Noun
knoll (plural knolls)
- A small mound or rounded hill.
- Sir Walter Scott
- On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
- Sir Walter Scott
Translations
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Etymology 2
Imitative, or variant of knell.
Noun
knoll (plural knolls)
- A knell.
Verb
knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)
- (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
- (intransitive, transitive) To sound, like a bell; to knell.
- Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
- If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
- Byron
- For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.
- Tennyson
- Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
- Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
Etymology 3
Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.
Verb
knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)
- To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
References
- 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
Westrobothnian
Verb
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