*hnuts

Runic: ᚺᚾᚢᛏᛊ Pronunciation: /ˈxnuts/

noun · feminine · consonant stem

Meanings

nut

Etymology

From Pre-Proto-Germanic *knuds, from a root *knu- also seen in Proto-Celtic *knūsand Latin nux. Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European origin.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	hnuts	hnutiz
Acc.	hnutų	hnutunz
Gen.	hnutiz	hnutǫ̂
Dat.	hnuti	hnutumaz
Inst.	hnutē	hnutumiz
Voc.	hnut	hnutiz

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Descendants

*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- *nuto (Old Dutch)
  - nōte (Middle Dutch)
    - noeat (Limburgish)
*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- *nuto (Old Dutch)
  - nōte (Middle Dutch)
    - noot (Dutch)
      - neut (Afrikaans)
      - nœüt, nût (Jersey Dutch)
      - neet, noot (Negerhollands)
      - nechi, neetsje, neetsjie (Papiamentu)
      - notò (Saramaccan)
      - noot (Skepi Creole Dutch)
*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- hnutu (Old English)
  - nute, note (Middle English)
    - nute, nuit, nit (Scots)
*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- hnutu (Old English)
  - nute, note (Middle English)
    - nut (English)
      - ナット (natto) (Japanese)
*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- *nutu (Old Frisian)
  - Nuute (Saterland Frisian)
  - nút (West Frisian)
*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- nuz (Old High German)
  - nuz (Middle High German)
    - Nuss (Alemannic German)
    - Nuss (German)
    - Nuss (Hunsrik)
    - Noss (Luxembourgish)
    - Nuss (Pennsylvania German)
    - נוס (nus) (Yiddish)
*hnut (Proto-West Germanic)
- hnut, *hnutu (Old Saxon)
  - nōte (Middle Low German)
    - Nööt (German Low German)
    - Nät (Plautdietsch)
hnot (Old Norse)
- nød (Danish)
- nøt, nøta, nytur (Faroese)
- hnot (Icelandic)
hnot (Old Norse)
- nøtt (Norwegian Bokmål)
  - nøtt (Norwegian Nynorsk)
hnot (Old Norse)
- nut, not (Old Swedish)
  - nöt (Swedish)

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