Nut

See also: nut, NUT, nuť, nút, nût, and -nut

English

Nut

Alternative forms

• Not, Nunut, Nenet, Nuit

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian nwt (“Nut, sky”).

Proper noun

Nut

1. (Egyptian mythology) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German nōt, from Old High German nōt, from Proto-West Germanic *naudi.

Noun

Nut f

1. (Erzgebirgisch) need, imminence
2. (Erzgebirgisch) necessity, poverty
3. (Erzgebirgisch) emergency, crisis

Derived terms

• nutwennig

Further reading

• Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 185

German

Etymology 1

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).

Alternative forms

• Nute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːt/

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

Nut f (genitive Nut, plural Nuten)

1. groove, slit, slot; rabbet

   Synonym: Schlitz

2. kerf

   Synonyms: Einschnitt, Kerbe, Schnittfuge, Fuge

Declension

Declension of Nut [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Nut	die	Nuten
genitive	einer	der	Nut	der	Nuten
dative	einer	der	Nut	den	Nuten
accusative	eine	die	Nut	die	Nuten

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nut f

1. (Egyptian mythology) Nut

See also

• Geb, Keb
• Osiris, Set (Seth), Isis, Nephthys (children of Geb/Keb and Nut)