Walnuss

Meaning

1. (feminine) walnut
2. (feminine) walnut tree

Concepts

walnut

walnut tree

Persian walnut

walnuts

common walnut

English walnut

Adam’s apple

nut

bosshead

Synonyms

Walnussbaum

Nuss

Baumnuss

Echte Walnuss

Persische Walnuss

Walnuß

Nuß

dunkelbraun

Nussbaumholz

Adamsapfel

Nussbaum

Translations

noce

noix

noz

nuez

okkernoot

walnoot

καρύδι

ceviz

nogal

noyer royal

noguer

nogueira-comum

noyer commun

anouer

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

nuss

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvalˌnʊs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German: -

Cognate with Dutch: walnoot

Cognate with English: walnut

Cognate with Danish: valnød

Cognate with Middle High German: welhisch nuz

In summary

17th century, from Low German, from Middle Low German walnut, from Proto-West Germanic *walhahnut, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreign”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, English walnut, and (from Middle Low German) Danish valnød etc. Equivalent to wal- (related with welsch) + Nuss; compare Middle High German welhisch nuz (alongside boumnuz). Possibly a calque of Latin nux gallica (or rather vice versa, the other way round, the Latin expression itself being a calque of German[ic]), but the name may merely describe the foreign origin as such; compare Finnish saksanpähkinä (literally “German nut”).