gnocchi

gnocchi

See also: Gnocchi

English

WOTD – 19 January 2012

Gnocchi in a tomato sauce.

Alternative forms

• gnocco

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 *knukô (“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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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɒki, (US) -oʊki

Noun

gnocchi (plural gnocchi or gnocchis)

1. Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.
   • 1999, Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook, Artisan, →ISBN, page 119:

     Test one gnocchi by placing it in a large pot of rapidly boiling lightly salted water.

Translations

pasta-like dumplings

Arabic: نِيُوكِّي‎ m (niyūkkī) Hijazi Arabic: نيوكِّي‎ m (nyōkki) Chinese: Mandarin: 玉棋 (yùqí), 意大利糰子／意大利团子 (Yìdàlì tuánzi) Finnish: gnocchi French: gnocchis (fr) m pl Galician: ñoqui (gl) m German: Nocken, Nockerln Hungarian: gnocchi (hu) Italian: gnocco (it) m Japanese: ニョッキ (nyokki) Korean: 뇨키 (nyoki) Macedonian: њо́ки f pl (njóki) Polish: gnocchi n Portuguese: nhoque (pt) m Russian: ньо́ки pl (nʹóki) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: њоки pl Roman: njoki pl Spanish: ñoquis (es) m pl, ñoqui (es) m Tagalog: niyoki Ukrainian: ньо́кі pl (nʹóki)

Further reading

• gnocchi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnjokːi/, [ˈnjo̞kːi]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡnokːi/, [ˈɡno̞kːi]

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

Possessive forms of gnocchi (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	gnocchini	gnocchimme
2nd person	gnocchisi	gnocchinne
3rd person	gnocchinsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲɔ.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m (plural gnocchis)

1. gnocchi

Further reading

• “gnocchi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈɲɔk.ki/
• Rhymes: -ɔkki
• Hyphenation: gnòc‧chi

Noun

gnocchi m pl

1. plural of gnocco
2. a dish of gnocchi

Descendants

• → Catalan: nyoqui
• → English: gnocchi
• → Finnish: gnocchi
• → French: gnocchi
• → German: Gnocchi
• → Japanese: ニョッキ (nyokki)
• → Korean: 뇨키 (nyoki)
• → Polish: gnocchi
• → Spanish: ñoqui

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲɔk.ki/
• Rhymes: -ɔkki
• Syllabification: gnoc‧chi

Noun

gnocchi n (indeclinable)

1. gnocchi

Further reading

• gnocchi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gnocchi in Polish dictionaries at PWN