nöt

• nî
• nît

• IPA^(key): /nœt/

nöt

1. not
   • 1912, Dialect Notes, volume 3, page 477:

     äk wêt nöt

     I do not know

• IPA^(key): /nøːt/

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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.

nöt c

1. nut, a hard-shelled seed

   knäcka en nöt

   crack a nut

2. a difficult problem (hard to crack, like a nut)

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

nöt n

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nöt

1. imperative of nöta

• nöt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• nöt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• nöt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

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

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nöt f (plural nöta)

1. seam