出典:Wiktionary
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; (比喩的に) of a question or problem: difficult, intricate”) [and other forms],[1] from knotte (“knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake”)[2] (from 古期英語 cnotta (“knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”)) + -i (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).[3] The English word may be analysed as knot + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).[4]
knotty (comparative knottier または more knotty, superlative knottiest または most knotty)