nöt

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Jersey Dutch

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Pronunciation

Adverb

nöt

  1. not
    • 1912, Dialect Notes, volume 3, page 477:
      äk wêt nöt
      I do not know

Swedish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nøːt/
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Etymology 1

From Old Swedish nut, not, from Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. The irregular stem vowel change in modern Swedish was due to influence from the plural form.

Noun

nöt c

  1. nut, a hard-shelled seed
    knäcka en nöt
    crack a nut
  2. a difficult problem (hard to crack, like a nut)
Declension
Declension of nöt
nominative genitive
singular indefinite nöt nöts
definite nöten nötens
plural indefinite nötter nötters
definite nötterna nötternas
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish nø̄t, from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą, from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (to acquire, make use of).

Noun

nöt n

  1. cattle, especially in compounds such as nötkreatur (cattlebeast, cf. English neatbeast), or nötkött (beef)
  2. (archaic) bull
  3. (derogatory) a stupid or slow person
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nöt

  1. imperative of nöta

References

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German nāt, from Proto-Germanic *nēdiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

nöt f (plural nöta)

  1. seam