gnocchi

Gnocchi comes from Italian gnocchi, the plural of gnocco meaning 'dumpling' or literally 'lump,' which is related to nocchio, a knot in wood. That word was borrowed from Lombardic knohha ('knuckle, bone, knot'), tracing back through Proto-Germanic *knukô and *kneukaz to the Proto-Indo-European root *gnew-, meaning 'knot, bundle.'

The word started as a description of a hard, knotty lump — in wood or bone — before settling into Italian as the name for a small, knobby dumpling.

It's a cousin of the English word knuckle, both tracing back to Germanic words for bone and knot.