Meaning

noun usually large hard-shelled seed

noun Egyptian goddess of the sky

noun a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

originFrom Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch…

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