кнут

From Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”). The original meaning was “knotty whip”.

• IPA^(key): [knut]

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• Rhymes: -ut

кнут • (knut) m inan (genitive кнута́, nominative plural кнуты́, genitive plural кнуто́в)

1. whip, knout, scourge

• → French: knout
  • → English: knout
• → German: Knute
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: кну̏т

    Latin: knȕt

• → Greek: κνούτο (knoúto)
• → Plautdietsch: Knutt

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “кнут”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress

Borrowed from German Knute, from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”).

• IPA^(key): /knût/

кну̏т m (Latin spelling knȕt)

1. knout