Nut
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Egyptian nwt (“Nut, sky”).
Proper noun edit
Nut
Anagrams edit
East Central German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German nōt, from Old High German nōt, from Proto-West Germanic *naudi.
Noun edit
Nut f
- (Erzgebirgisch) need, imminence
- (Erzgebirgisch) necessity, poverty
- (Erzgebirgisch) emergency, crisis
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Further reading edit
- Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 185
German edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German nuot, from Old High German nuot (“groove”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *hnōjaną (“to smooth, join together”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (compare Ancient Greek κνάω (knáō, “to scratch, scrape”), whence English acnestis).
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Noun edit
Nut f (genitive Nut, plural Nuten)
- groove, slit, slot; rabbet
- Synonym: Schlitz
- kerf
- Synonyms: Einschnitt, Kerbe, Schnittfuge, Fuge
Declension edit
Declension of Nut [feminine]
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Nut f