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

• NTU, tun

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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
2. kerf

Synonyms

• (slit): Schlitz
• (kerf): Einschnitt, Kerbe, Schnittfuge, Fuge

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nut f

1. Nut

See also

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