Nut

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

English
Nut

Alternative forms
  • 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

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”)).

Alternative forms
  • Nute

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nuːt/
  • Audio (Austria)(file)

Noun

Nut f (genitive Nut, plural Nuten)

  1. groove, slit, slot; rabbet
  2. kerf
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nut f

  1. Nut

See also
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