knorr

K5N1O1R1R1

proper noun

A surname.

OriginOld Norse knǫrr →
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Meanings

knorr1

nounknorr (plural knorrs)

plural knorrs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of knarr (“large merchant ship used in mediaeval Scandinavia”).

    the largest knorr in Halogaland was loaded at Sandnes this spring and Thorolf was said to be sole owner of all the cargo on board.

    1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 29

Knorr2

proper nounKnorr (plural Knorrs)

plural Knorrs

  1. A surname.

    […] K-N-O-R-R, a very strange name indeed, […]

    1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 40–41

Origin

knorr · noun

  1. Old Norseknǫrr
  2. Old Norseknǫrr
  3. Englishknorr

Learned borrowing from Old Norse knǫrr.

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Knorr · proper noun

  1. Middle Low Germancnorre
  2. EnglishKnorr

From the Dutch and German surname, from the root of Middle Dutch and Middle Low German cnorre, knorre (“protruberance, knot”). See gnarled.

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APA

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Chicago

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