Knochen.
bone
Meaning & usage
bone
backbreaking, demanding
Knochenjob
Knochenstudium
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German knoche, from Old High German knohha, from Proto-West Germanic *knokō (“bone, joint”). Displaced earlier Bein for "bone" in most contexts. Compare Dutch knook (“bone”), knokkel (“knuckle”), knekel (“bone (of a dead person)”), English knuckle, Danish kno and Swedish knoge (both “knuckle”).
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