Knolle

German

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈknɔlə/
• Rhymes: -ɔlə

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Noun

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

1. bulb
2. tuber

Declension

Declension of Knolle [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Knolle	die	Knollen
genitive	einer	der	Knolle	der	Knollen
dative	einer	der	Knolle	den	Knollen
accusative	eine	die	Knolle	die	Knollen

References

• 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

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