knut

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See also: Knut and knút

English

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Noun

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knut (plural knuts)

  1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) An idle upper-class man about town.[1]
    Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
    For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

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Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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knut f or m (plural knutten, diminutive knutje n)

  1. gnat

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knuter, definite plural knutene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute

Norwegian Nynorsk

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knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knutar, definite plural knutane)

  1. alternative form of knute

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (knot).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈknut/
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  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification: knut

Noun

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knut m inan

  1. knout (leather scourge used in imperial Russia)
    Synonyms: harap, nahajka
  2. a strike or flogging with a knout

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adjective
verb

Further reading

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  • knut in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • knut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From German Knute.

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knȕt m (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

  1. knout

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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en knut (skoknut) (sense 1)
en röd stuga med vita knutar [a red cottage with white corners] (sense 2)

Etymology

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From Old Swedish knūter from Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot). Originally of corner joints of log cabins in (sense 2).

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knut c

  1. a knot (loop, of for example a piece of string)
    knyta en knut
    tie a knot
  2. an exterior corner of a (wooden) building
    ett rött hus med vita knutar
    a red house with white corners
  3. (in "inpå knutarna") very close to the house, on one's doorstep
    Vi har grannarna inpå knutarna
    Our neighbors' house is very close to ours ("we have our neighbors close to the corners of our house")

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corner

In particular used of log cabins, but also generalized to small and medium sized buildings.

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