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naut

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See also: năut, naut-, -naut, and naut.

Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with English neat.

Noun

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naut n (genitive singular nauts, nominative plural naut)

  1. bull
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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naut

  1. first/third-person singular active past indicative of njóta

Middle English

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Pronoun

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naut

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of nought

Adverb

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naut

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of nought

Adjective

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naut

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of nought

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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naut

  1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of nyte

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognates include archaic English neat.

Noun

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naut n (definite singular nautet, indefinite plural naut, definite plural nauta)

  1. a bull, cow, or calf
  2. (in the plural) cattle
    Synonyms: storfe, krøter
  3. a fool

Etymology 2

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Verb

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naut

  1. past tense of nyta

References

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Anagrams

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Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin altus.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Languedoc):(file)

Adjective

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naut m (feminine singular nauta, masculine plural nauts, feminine plural nautas)

  1. high
    Antonym: bas

Derived terms

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Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *nautą, related to Old English nēat (whence English neat), Old High German nōz (whence dialectal German Noss).

Noun

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naut n (genitive nauts, plural naut)

  1. bull
    Synonym: tarfr
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Icelandic: naut
  • Faroese: neyt
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: naut
  • Norwegian Bokmål: naut
  • Swedish: nöt
  • Danish: nød
  • Middle English: nout, nowt, nowwt, nawt, naut

Etymology 2

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Verb

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naut

  1. first-person singular past indicative active of njóta
  2. third-person singular past indicative active of njóta

References

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Plautdietsch

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Adjective

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naut

  1. wet

Unua

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *na (a particle which functioned like a definite article) + *ʔuta.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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naut

  1. place

Alternative forms

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Further reading

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  • Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)