knol
Dutch
editAlternative forms
edit- (obsolete) knolle
Etymology
editFrom earlier knolle; first attested in the early sixteenth century. The earliest attested meaning in Dutch is "turnip" (now obsolete, the derived knolraap having become the standard term), which appears to be the result of a semantic narrowing from a broader meaning "bulging protrusion"; compare for example the cognates Old High German knollo (“rocky outcrop; lump”), English knoll (“hill”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editknol m (plural knollen, diminutive knolletje n)
- tuber
- corm, bulbotuber
- bulge, protrusion
- nag, inferior horse
- Synonym: guil
- workhorse, draft horse
- (obsolete) Synonym of knolraap (“turnip”)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Papiamentu: kònòlchi (from the diminutive)
References
edit- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “knol”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- 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
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editknol (plural knols)
- a knoll
Descendants
edit- English: knoll
References
edit- “knol, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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