walnut

Meaning

Synonyms

walnut tree

common walnut

English walnut

Persian walnut

bosshead

nut-tree

nut tree

Circassian walnut

Carpathian walnut

European walnut

walnut-tree

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
wal‧nut
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈwɔːlnʌt/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

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