Where does “knoke” come from?
knoke (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Middle Low German knoke, from Old Dutch knuko, from Proto-West Germanic *knokō.
knoke (Norwegian Bokmål): a knuckle
Ancestry of “knoke”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | knoke | — |
| 2 | Old Dutch | knuko | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *knokō | — |