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

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

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

Proper noun

Nut f

  1. (Egyptian mythology) Nut

See also
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