cnú

See also: cnu

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *knūs, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knuː/

Noun

cnú f

1. nut

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• cnú frangcach

Descendants

• Irish: cnó
• Manx: cro
• Scottish Gaelic: cnò

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cnú	chnú	cnú pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language