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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

Definitions

  1. a knuckle

Ancestry of “knoke”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanknoke—
2Old Dutchknuko—
3Proto-West Germanic*knokō—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *knokō →