кнут

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кнут

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• кнутъ (knut) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”). The original meaning was “knotty whip”.

• IPA^(key): [knut]

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• Rhymes: -ut

кнут • (knut) m inan (genitive кнута́, nominative plural кнуты́, genitive plural кнуто́в, relational adjective кнуто́вый, diminutive кну́тик, augmentative кнути́ще, pejorative кнути́шка)

1. whip, knout, scourge

   кнут и пря́ник ― knut i prjánik ― carrot and stick (literally, “whip and gingerbread”)

• → French: knout
  • → English: knout
• → German: Knute
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кну̏т

    Latin script: knȕt

• → Greek: κνούτο (knoúto)
• → Plautdietsch: Knutt
• → Polish: knut
• → Romanian: cnut
• → Slovak: knuta

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кнут”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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

• IPA^(key): /knût/

кну̏т m (Latin spelling knȕt)

1. knout