knol

See also: knøl, Knol, and knöl

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) knolle

Etymology

From 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

• IPA^(key): /knɔl/

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• Hyphenation: knol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

knol m (plural knollen, diminutive knolletje n)

1. tuber
2. corm, bulbotuber
3. bulge, protrusion
4. nag, inferior horse

   Synonym: guil

5. workhorse, draft horse
6. (obsolete) Synonym of knolraap (“turnip”)

Derived terms

• knolraap
• knolselderij
• knolsteenbreek
• Oostknollendam
• Westknollendam

 

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: kònòlchi (from the diminutive)

References

• 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

• lonk

Middle English

Alternative forms

• knolle, cnolle

Etymology

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

knol (plural knols)

1. a knoll

Descendants

• English: knoll

References

• “knol, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.