knotty

English

Etymology

From Middle English knotty, knotti, equivalent to knot +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Homophone: naughty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Rhymes: -ɒti

Adjective

knotty (comparative knottier or more knotty, superlative knottiest or most knotty)

Full of knots.
knotty pine
Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult.
a knotty problem

Translations

Full of knots

Catalan: nuós
Finnish: kuhmuinen
Greek: οζώδης (el) m, f (ozódis)
Irish: cranrach
Italian: nodoso (it)
Latvian: mezglains
Maori: taurekereke

Norman: noueux
Plautdietsch: knoppijch
Polish: sękaty (pl)
Romanian: nodos (ro)
Russian: сучкова́тый (ru) (sučkovátyj)
Spanish: nudoso

Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult

Dutch: ingewikkeld (nl)
Finnish: visainen (fi)
Greek: δυσεπίλυτος (el) m (dysepílytos), πολύπλοκος (el) m (polýplokos), δύσκολος (el) m (dýskolos)

Maori: whīwhiwhi, rīraparapa, manganga
Russian: запу́танный (ru) (zapútannyj)
Swedish: knepig (sv)

Middle English

Alternative forms

knotti, cnotti

Etymology

From knotte +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈknɔtiː/

Adjective

knotty

Descendants

English: knotty
Scots: knottie

References

“knottī (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

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