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hnutu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
hnutu, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§111; §213; §285; §325; §410; §412;
A nut
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  • Hnutu

    juglantis vel nux,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 45;
    • Som. 64, 97;
    • Wrt. Voc. 32, 32.
  • For æppla and hnuta ǽte

    from eating of apples and nuts,

    • L. M. 2, 39;
    • Lchdm. ii. 246, 21.
  • Hnute hula

    culliole,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 31;
    • Som. 61, 105;
    • Wrt. Voc. 27, 34.
  • Óðera hnutena cyrnlu

    kernels of other nuts,

    • iii. 134, 23.
  • Of frencissen hnutu[m]

    made of French nuts,

    • 122, 28.
  • Cyrnlu of píntrýwenum hnutum

    kernels out of pine tree nuts,

    • Herb. 134, 2;
    • Lchdm. i. 250, 9.
  • Gif heó gelóme eteþ hnyte

    if she is often eating nuts,

    • iii. 144, 20.
  • Hnyte somnian, gaderian

    to gather nuts,

    • 174, 5: 208, 18.
  • On ðam óðrum dæge wæs Aarones gyrd gemétt grówende and berende hnyte

    on the next day Aaron's rod was found growing and bearing nuts,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 8, 16, 18.
  • Bringaþ ðam men lác sumne dǽl tyrwan and hunig and hnite

    deferte viro munera, modicum resinæ et mellis et amygdalarum,

    • Gen. 43, 11.
Etymology
[Ayenb. nhote:
Prompt. Parv. note nux, nucleus:
Icel. hnot; f. pl. hnetr:
O. H. Ger. hnuz, nuz nux, migdola:
Ger. nuss.]
Derived forms
hæsel-, pín-hnutu
Linked entries
v.  hnyte.
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