Icelandic

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Etymology

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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.

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hnot f (genitive singular hnotar, nominative plural hnotir or hnotur or hnetur)

  1. (rare) a nut

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  • plural hnotir:
    Declension of hnot
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hnot hnotin hnotir hnotirnar
accusative hnot hnotina hnotir hnotirnar
dative hnot hnotinni hnotum hnotunum
genitive hnotar hnotarinnar hnota hnotanna

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Old English

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Etymology

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Unknown.

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Adjective

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hnot

  1. bald
  2. cropped, pollarded (of trees, plants)

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  • English: nott

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. Cognate with Old English hnutu (English nut), Dutch noot, Old High German nuz (German Nuss).

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hnot f (genitive hnotar, plural hnetr or hnøtr, genitive plural hnata)

  1. nut

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References

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  • hnot”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press