Noun: walnut
| Singular | walnut |
| Plural | walnuts |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like walnut
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”. See: Middle English Nouns '
walnote', Old English Nouns '
wealhhnutu', Dutch Nouns '
walnoot', German Nouns '
Walnuss', Swedish Nouns '
valnöt', Icelandic Nouns '
valhneta'.
Verbs referencing "walnut"
German Nouns
Walnuss, Dutch Nouns
walnoot, Swedish Nouns
valnöt.