Knowles (surname)


Knowles is an English surname of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Viking origins. This is a locality name meaning 'at the knoll,' a hill or summit, derived from Old English word cnolle and Old Norse word “knollr” meaning “hilltop” and thus describes a person who lived at such a place. Literally “The people of the hill.”
It can also be an Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Tnúthghail. It literally means people of the tribe.
Etymology
From Old English cnoll, from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla-, possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr, Dutch knol, Swedish knöl, Danish knold and German Knolle.
from a general group of Germanic words that includes English knob, knock, knuckle, knoll, knurl.

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