noot

noot

1. (Geordie) nothing

• nowt

• shy bairns get noot

• Noto, Toon, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, oont, tono-, toon

From Dutch noot, from Middle Dutch note, from Old French note, from Latin nota.

• IPA^(key): /nʊə̯t/

noot (plural note, diminutive nootjie)

1. A musical note.
2. A note, a reference.

• voetnoot

• IPA^(key): /noːt/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [noːt]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [noʊ̯t]

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• Hyphenation: noot
• Rhymes: -oːt
• Homophone: nood

From Middle Dutch nōte, from Old Dutch *nutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.

noot f (plural noten, diminutive nootje n)

1. nut
2. (vulgar, chiefly plural) testicle, nut

• Afrikaans: neut
• Jersey Dutch: nœüt, nût
• Negerhollands: neet, noot
• Skepi Creole Dutch: noot
• → Papiamentu: nechi, neetsje, neetsjie (from the diminutive)
• → Saramaccan: notò

From Middle Dutch note, from Old French note, from Latin nota.

noot f (plural noten, diminutive nootje n)

1. note (musical note)
2. note (brief remark)
3. note (a commentary or reference appended to a text)

• eindnoot
• notenbalk
• notenschrift
• voetnoot

• Afrikaans: noot
• → Indonesian: not
• → Papiamentu: not, noot

From Proto-Germanic *nautą (“foredeal, profit, property, livestock”).

noot n (uncountable)

1. (archaic) cattle, livestock
2. (archaic) cow, neat

• toon

noot

1. Alternative form of not (“not to know”)

noot

1. nothing

A hypercorrection of nowt, used generally by the younger generation.

• nowt