nöt

See also: noet and Appendix:Variations of "not"

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nøːt/
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Etymology 1

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

nöt c

  1. nut, a hard-shelled seed
  2. a difficult problem (hard to crack, like a nut)
Declension
Declension of nöt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nöt nöten nötter nötterna
Genitive nöts nötens nötters nötternas
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

nöt n

  1. cattle, especially in compounds such as nötkreatur, "cattle animal", or nötkött, "beef"
  2. (archaic) bull
  3. (derogatory) a stupid or slow person
Declension
Declension of nöt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nöt nötet nöt nöten
Genitive nöts nötets nöts nötens

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

nöt

  1. imperative of nöta.

References
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