nytt
See also: nýtt
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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *nutjō (“profit, yield, utility”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to grasp, seize, use”). Related to Old High German nuz (“use”), Dutch nut (“use”), Swedish nytta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nytt/
Noun
nytt f (nominative plural nytta)
- use, utility, advantage; duty, office, employment
- Wé woldon þ̵ hit wurde tó nytte ðám gehérendum.
- supervision, care, useful work, charge, service
- Paulinus onféng þá nytte þæs wyrtgeardes. — Paulinus undertook the care of the garden.
Declension
Noun
nytt n (nominative plural nytt)
- That which is useful, advantageous, profitable
- Ic nát hwes ic bydde, hweðer ic bydde nyttes þe unnittes mé.
Declension
Declension of nytt (strong a-stem)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nytt | nytt |
| accusative | nytt | nytt |
| genitive | nyttes | nytta |
| dative | nytte | nyttum |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- ciricnytt f. — church service
- fornytlic — very useful
- nytlicnes f. — utility
- nytlic — useful, profitable; Ger. nützlich
- nyttnes, nytnes f. — use, benefit, convenience
- nyttol — useful
- nyttung (i) f. — profit, advantage
- nytwierþe, nytwirþe, nytwyrþe — useful, profitable
- nytwierþlīce — usefully, profitablely
- nytwierþlic — useful, profitable
- nytwyrþnes (eo) f. — utility
- onnytt, unnyt, unnytt m. — unprofitableness, emptiness, vanity, folly; adj. useless, unprofitable
- sundnytt f. — use of the power of swimming
- sundornytt f. — special use, office, or service
- unnytenes, unnytnes f. — unprofitableness, frivolity, emptiness
- unnytliclīce — uselessly, unprofitablely, foolishly
- unnytlicnes f. — uselessness
- unnytlic — useless, unprofitable, foolish
- unnytwyrþe — unprofitable, useless
- woruldnytt f. — worldly use or profit
- wuldornytting f. — glorious service
Descendants
- Middle English nutte
Adjective
nytt
- useful, beneficial, helpful, profitable, advantageous
- Hié mec ǽnigre note nytte beón ne meahton.
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | nytta | nytte | nytte | nyttan | nom. | nytt | nytt | nyttu | nytte | nyttu, -e | nytta, -e | ||
| accusative | nyttan | nytte | nyttan | acc. | nyttne | nytt | nytte | nytte | nyttu, -e | nytta, -e | |||
| genitive | nyttan | nyttra, nyttena | gen. | nyttes | nyttes | nyttre | nyttra | ||||||
| dative | nyttan | nyttum | dat. | nyttum | nyttum | nyttre | nyttum | ||||||
| instrumental | nytte | ||||||||||||
References
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", nytt et al.
- Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), nytt.
Swedish
Westrobothnian
Verb
nytt
- past participle of nyytt
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