hnot
Icelandic
Etymology
From the Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. Cognate with Faroese nøt, Norwegian nøtt, nòt, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, English nut, Dutch noot, German Nuss, and also Latin nux.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n̥ɔːt/
Noun
hnot f (genitive singular hnotar, nominative plural hnotir or hnotur or hnetur)
- (rare) a nut syn.
Declension
- plural hnotir:
declension of hnot
| f-s2 | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hnot | hnotin | hnotir | hnotirnar |
| accusative | hnot | hnotina | hnotir | hnotirnar |
| dative | hnot | hnotinni | hnotum | hnotunum |
| genitive | hnotar | hnotarinnar | hnota | hnotanna |
Synonyms
- (nut): def. hneta
Derived terms
Derived terms
- haslahnot
- heslihnot
- hnotskurn
- hnotabit
- hnotabítast
- Hnotasteinn
- hnotber
- hnotbrjótur
- hnotbrúnn, hnotbrún, hnotbrúnt
- hnotgjarn, hnotgjörn, hnotgjarnt
- Hnothamrar
- hnotkráka
- hnotskel
- hnotskógur
- hnotsörvi
- hnottajörð
- hnotti
- hnottré
- Hnotuberg
- hnotubrjótur
- hnotubrúnn, hnotubrún, hnotubrúnt
- hnotuskel
- hnotutré
- hnotviður
- í hnotskurn
- jarðhnot
- kókoshnot
- valhnot
See also
- hnota
Old English
Etymology
Origin unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hnot/
Adjective
hnot
- bald
- cropped, pollarded (of trees, plants)
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | hnota | hnote | hnote | hnotan | nom. | hnot | hnote | hnot | hnota, -e | ||||
| accusative | hnotan | hnote | hnotan | acc. | hnotne | hnot | hnote | hnote | hnot | hnota, -e | |||
| genitive | hnotan | hnotra, hnotena | gen. | hnotes | hnotes | hnotre | hnotra | ||||||
| dative | hnotan | hnotum | dat. | hnotum | hnotum | hnotre | hnotum | ||||||
| instrumental | hnote | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- English: nott
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. Cognate with Old English hnutu (English nut), Dutch noot, Old High German nuz (German Nuss).
Noun
hnot f (genitive hnotar, plural hnetr or hnøtr)
- nut
Descendants
- Danish: nød
- Faroese: nøt, nøta, nytur
- Icelandic: hnot, hneta
- Norwegian: nøtt, nòt
- Swedish: nöt
References
- hnot in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press