German

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Etymology

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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

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

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

  1. bulb
  2. tuber

Declension

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References

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  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

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