Knolle
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
Noun edit
Knolle f (genitive Knolle, plural Knollen, diminutive Knöllchen n)
Declension edit
Declension of Knolle [feminine]
References edit
- ^ 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