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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From a hypothetical Pre-Celtic *knuHs, which in view of the vacillating consonantism in Germanic and Latin (from *knuds and *knuks respectively) is probably a post-PIE loanword from a European substrate language. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hnuts, Latin nux.
Noun
*knūs f
- nut
Inflection
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
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singular
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dual
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plural
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nominative
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*knūs
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*knowe
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*knowes
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vocative
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*knūs
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*knowe
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*knowes
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accusative
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*knowam
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*knowe
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*knowams
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genitive
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*knowos
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*knowou
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*knowom
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dative
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*knowei
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*knowobom
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*knowobos
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locative
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*knowi
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instrumental
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*knowe?
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*knowobim
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*knowobis
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Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *know pl
- Old Irish: cnú
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 237-238
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 212