Walnuss
German edit
Alternative forms edit
- Walnuß (pre-1996)
Etymology edit
17th century, from Low German, from Middle Low German walnut, from Proto-West Germanic *walhahnut, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreign”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, English walnut, and (from Middle Low German) Danish valnød etc. Equivalent to wal- (related with welsch) + Nuss; compare Middle High German welhisch nuz (alongside boumnuz). Possibly a calque of Latin nux gallica, but the name may merely describe the foreign origin as such; compare Finnish saksanpähkinä (literally “German nut”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈvalˌnʊs/
Audio (file) - (southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria) IPA(key): /ˈvaːlˌnʊs/
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Noun edit
Walnuss f (genitive Walnuss, plural Walnüsse)
- walnut
- Synonyms: (southern) Welschnuss, (Switzerland) Baumnuss
- walnut tree
- Synonyms: Nussbaum, Walnussbaum
Usage notes edit
- The spelling Walnuss has been the prescribed spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform). In Switzerland and Liechtenstein, it had already been standard since ⟨ß⟩ was deprecated in the 1930s.
Declension edit
Declension of Walnuss [feminine]
Derived terms edit
- Walnuss-Blatttütenfalter
- Walnuss-Fruchtfliege
- Walnuss-Gallmilbe
- Walnussbaum
- Walnussblatt
- Walnussbrot
- Walnussbutter
- Walnusseis
- Walnussernte
- walnussförmig
- Walnussfruchtfliege
- Walnussgallmilbe
- Walnussgewächs
- Walnusshälfte
- Walnussholz
- Walnusskern
- Walnussmilch
- Walnussöl
- Walnusspesto
- Walnusssaft
- Walnusssarg
- Walnussschaft
- Walnussschale
- Walnussschlankmotte
- Walnusszierlaus