naut

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nøyːt/

  Rhymes: -øyːt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

naut n (genitive singular nauts, nominative plural naut)

1. bull

   Synonyms: boli, tarfur, tuddi

Declension

Declension of naut (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	naut	nautið	naut	nautin
accusative	naut	nautið	naut	nautin
dative	nauti	nautinu	nautum	nautunum
genitive	nauts	nautsins	nauta	nautanna

Derived terms

• nautakjöt
• nautalundir
• stara eins og naut á nývirki
• ungnaut
• ungnautakjöt

Etymology 2

Verb

naut

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

Middle English

Pronoun

naut

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of nought

Adverb

naut

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of nought

Adjective

naut

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of nought

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

naut

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Verb

naut

1. past tense of nyta

References

• “naut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• nuta, tuna

Occitan

Alternative forms

• aut (Provençal)

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedoc):

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. high

   Antonym: bas

Derived terms

• nautor

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Noun

naut n (genitive nauts, plural naut)

1. bull

   Synonyms: tarfr, þjórr

Declension

Declension of naut (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	naut	nautit	naut	nautin
accusative	naut	nautit	naut	nautin
dative	nauti	nautinu	nautum	nautunum
genitive	nauts	nautsins	nauta	nautanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: naut
• Faroese: neyt
• Norwegian Nynorsk: naut
• Norwegian Bokmål: naut
• Swedish: nöt
• Danish: nød
• → Middle English: nout, nowt, nowwt, nawt, naut
  • English: (Northern England) nout, nowt
  • Scots: nout, nowt, nolt

Etymology 2

Verb

naut

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

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “naut”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

Plautdietsch

Adjective

naut

1. wet

Unua

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naut/

Noun

naut

1. place

Alternative forms

• nut

Further reading

• Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)