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Icelandic
Etymology
From the Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts. Cognate with Faroese nøt, Norwegian nøtt, nòt, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, English nut, Dutch noot, German Nuss, and also Latin nux.
Pronunciation
Noun
hnot f (genitive singular hnotar, nominative plural hnotir or hnotur or hnetur)
- (rare) a nut
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See also
Old English
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hnot
- bald
- cropped, pollarded (of trees, plants)
Declension
Declension of hnot — Strong
Declension of hnot — Weak
Descendants
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. Cognate with Old English hnutu (English nut), Dutch noot, Old High German nuz (German Nuss).
Noun
hnot f (genitive hnotar, plural hnetr or hnøtr, genitive plural hnata)
- nut
Declension
Declension of hnot (strong consonant stem)
The declension of this noun is highly irregular.
Descendants
References
- “hnot”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press