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Where does “nocchieruto” come from?

nocchieruto (Italian) comes from Italian nocchio, from Lombardic knohha — knuckle, bone, knot.

nocchieruto (Italian): knotty

Definitions

  1. knotty

Ancestry of “nocchieruto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiannocchioknot, node
2Lombardicknohhaknuckle, bone, knot
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