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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Knagge.
Pronunciation
Noun
knaga f
- (nautical) cleat (device to quickly attach a line or rope)
- (Kraków) large bone
- Synonym: gnat
- (Near Masovian, milling) piece of wood nailed to a propeller of a mill behind which small flaps are plugged
Declension
Further reading
- knaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “knaga”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 364