An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Knocke

by Friedrich Kluge

Knocke, feminine, ‘bundle, bunch,’ Modern High German only, from Low German knocke; proved to be a genuine Old Teutonic word by Anglo-Saxon *cnyčče, Middle English knucche, ‘bundle’ (e.g. ‘bundle of hay’), English knitch, ‘faggot’; Gothic *knuka, or rather *knukja, masculine, are wanting.