knotty

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɒti/
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• General-American: /ˈnɑti/
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• General-American: [-ɾi]
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• homophone: naughty (cot–caught merger)
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• homophone: noddy (flapping)
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• rhymes with -ɒti
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• CMU ARPABET: N AA1 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English knotti, knotty (“having a knot in it; full of knots; tied together (?); resembling a knot, knotlike; having knobs or protuberances; bulging, convex; of a tree, branch, etc.: full of knots, gnarled; of a plant cutting to be grafted or planted: full of buds or eyes; having joints (?); having swollen joints; of flesh: glandular; of flesh: granular, lumpy, especially, having many swellings; mangy, scurfy (?); having pimples (?); of cauterization: carried out on glandular tissue; (figuratively) of a question or problem: difficult, intricate”) [and other forms], from knotte (“knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake”) (from Old English cnotta (“knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gned- (“to bind”)) + -i (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). The English word may be analysed as knot + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). Cognates * Dutch knoestig (“knotty”) * German knotig (“knotty”) * Swedish knotig, knutig (“knotty”)

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: nuedudu — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Asturian: noyosu — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Asturian: nodosu — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Bulgarian: чепат (čepat) — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Catalan: nuós — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Finnish: kuhmuinen — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Georgian: ნასკვიანი (nasḳviani) — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Georgian: კვანძიანი (ḳvanʒiani) — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Greek: οζώδης (ozódis) — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Irish: cranrach — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Italian: nodoso — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Jamaican Creole: natty — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Latin: nodosus — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Latvian: mezglains — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Māori: taurekereke — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Norman: noueux — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Plautdietsch: knoppijch — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Polish: sękaty — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Romanian: nodos — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Russian: сучкова́тый (sučkovátyj) — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Spanish: nudoso — of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
• Bulgarian: сложен (složen) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Bulgarian: заплетен (zapleten) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Dutch: ingewikkeld — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Finnish: visainen — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Georgian: არეულ-დარეული (areul-dareuli) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Georgian: ძნელი (ʒneli) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Greek: δυσεπίλυτος (dysepílytos) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Greek: πολύπλοκος (polýplokos) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Greek: δύσκολος (dýskolos) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Māori: manganga — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Māori: rīraparapa — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Māori: whīwhiwhi — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Russian: запу́танный (zapútannyj) — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult
• Swedish: knepig — complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult