gnocchi

English
WOTD – 19 January 2012
Gnocchi in a tomato sauce.

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), from nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukǭ (“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.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnjɒ.ki/; IPA(key): /ˈnɒ.ki/ (sometimes proscribed)
  • (US) enPR: nyōʹkē, IPA(key): /ˈnjoʊ.ki/
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Noun

gnocchi (plural gnocchi or gnocchis)

  1. Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

Translations

Further reading

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Noun

gnocchi

  1. gnocchi
    Söin gnoccheja lounaaksi.
    I ate gnocchi for lunch.

Usage notes

The Italian plural word has been adopted into Finnish as a singular.

Declension
Inflection of gnocchi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative gnocchi gnocchit
genitive gnocchin gnocchien
partitive gnocchia gnoccheja
illative gnocchiin gnoccheihin
singular plural
nominative gnocchi gnocchit
accusative nom. gnocchi gnocchit
gen. gnocchin
genitive gnocchin gnocchien
partitive gnocchia gnoccheja
inessive gnocchissa gnoccheissa
elative gnocchista gnoccheista
illative gnocchiin gnoccheihin
adessive gnocchilla gnoccheilla
ablative gnocchilta gnoccheilta
allative gnocchille gnoccheille
essive gnocchina gnoccheina
translative gnocchiksi gnoccheiksi
instructive — gnocchein
abessive gnocchitta gnoccheitta
comitative — gnoccheineen

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɲɔ.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m (plural gnocchis)

  1. gnocchi

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɲɔk.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m pl

  1. plural of gnocco
  2. a dish of gnocchi
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