knokken

Usually regarded as a borrowing from English knock, despite the enounced k- in Dutch. Alternatively, and less likely, perhaps a derivative of Dutch knok, a variant of knook (“knuckle, bone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈknɔ.kə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: knok‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɔkən

knokken

1. (informal, intransitive) to fight, to dust up
2. (informal, transitive) to hit, to beat

• cnoken, knocke, knok, knoke, knokke, knokkyn

From Old English cnocian, from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną. Forms with a short vowel are possibly due to trisyllabic shortening.

• IPA^(key): /ˈknɔkən/, /ˈknɔːkən/, /ˈknɒːkən/

knokken (third-person singular simple present knokketh, present participle knokkynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle knokked)

1. To pound; to beat down.
2. To strike (with a weapon or one's head)
3. To knock or rap on (something).
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 3:20, page 118v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     lo I ſtonde at the doꝛe .· ⁊ knocke if ony man heriþ my voys · ⁊ openeþ þe ȝate to me · I ſhal entre to hym · ⁊ ſoupe with hym · ⁊ he with me

     I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door for me, I'll go and dine with them, and them with me.

4. To beat against the breast.
5. To pulverise; to crush to bits.
6. (rare) To assault; to attack.

• knok

• English: knock
  • → Dutch: knokken; nokken
• Scots: knock, tnock, knack
• Yola: knockt (preterite)

• “knokken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.