gnoco

Venetian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, perhaps from Lombard knohhil (“knot in wood”), perhaps akin to Proto-West Germanic *knokō (“joint”) (modern English knuckle).[1]

Noun

gnoco m (plural gnochi)

  1. dumpling (small)
  2. lump, clot

Descendants
  • → Italian: gnocco

References
  1. “gnocchi”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.