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Knatten

Pronunciation: /ˈknatː.ən/

“Knatten” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its meaning in English:

proper noun

  1. A Norwegian place name, used especially of small rounded rocky hills, farms, and dwellings named from such terrain.

Etymology

From knatten (“the rocky outcrop, the knoll”), the definite singular of knatt (“small rounded rocky hill, rocky outcrop”), from Old Norse knattr (“stud, button, knob, ball”), related to knǫttr (“sphere, ball, orb”), from Proto-Germanic *knattuz. As a place name, originally referring to a small rounded rocky hill or projection. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Knatten (“place name”).

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