gnocchi

Gnocchi in a tomato sauce.

Meaning

Noun

Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

Origin

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco, from nocchio, a borrowing from Langobardic knohha ("knuckle, bone, knot"), from Proto-Germanic *knukô ("bone"), *kneukaz, 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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