gnocchi

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gnew-“knot, bundle”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*knukô“bone”
3. Lombardic · derived fromknohha“knuckle, bone, knot”
4. Italian · borrowed fromgnocchi
5. English todaygnocchi

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukô (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

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