knoll

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəʊl/, /nɒl/ (General American) enPR: nōl, IPA(key): /noʊl/ Rhymes: -əʊl, -ɒl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”). ==== Noun ==== knoll (plural knolls) A small mound or rounded hill. (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface. Coordinate term: seamount ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== dale hill rill ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Imitative, or variant of knell. ==== Noun ==== knoll (plural knolls) A knell. ==== Verb ==== knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled) (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell. (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc). === Etymology 3 === Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture. ==== Verb ==== knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled) To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles. === References === Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012