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nöt

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Jersey Dutch

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Adverb

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nöt

  1. not
    • 1912, Dialect Notes, volume 3, page 477:
      äk wêt nöt
      I do not know

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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nötter (hasselnötter)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /nøːt/
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Etymology 1

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    From Old Swedish nut, not, from Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. The irregular stem vowel change in modern Swedish was due to influence from the plural form.

    Noun

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    nöt c

    1. nut, a hard-shelled seed
      knäcka en nöt
      crack a nut
    2. a difficult problem (hard to crack, like a nut)
    Declension
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    Declension of nöt
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite nöt nöts
    definite nöten nötens
    plural indefinite nötter nötters
    definite nötterna nötternas
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    Etymology 2

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      From Old Swedish nø̄t, from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą, from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (to acquire, make use of).

      Noun

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      nöt n

      1. cattle, especially in compounds such as nötkreatur (cattlebeast, cf. English neatbeast), or nötkött (beef)
      2. (archaic) bull
      3. (derogatory) a stupid or slow person
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      Etymology 3

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      nöt

      1. imperative of nöta

      References

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      Vilamovian

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      Etymology

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      From Middle High German and Old High German nāt, from Proto-Germanic *nēdiz.

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      Noun

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      nöt f (plural nöta)

      1. seam