Gnocchi Definition

Origin of Gnocchi

• From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), from nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), from Lombardic *knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukōn (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneu- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

  From Wiktionary

• Italian pl. of gnocco from dialectal Italian (Venetian) Italian nocca knuckle of Germanic origin Middle High German knoche bone Middle English knokel knuckle

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition