nœud
French
noun
Definitions
- knot (tangle)
- knot (unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour)
- (slang) penis
- (slang) stupid person
- (physics) node
- knot (muscular tension)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French neu (knot) inherited from Latin nōdus (bond, a knot, knob) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gned-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gned-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- node English
- noose English
- nooseless English
- nooselike English
- nooser English
- necto Latin
- nodosus Latin
- nodulus Latin
- nodus Latin
- nōdus Latin
- nodo Italian
- supernœud French
- nodo Spanish, Castilian
- *gned- Proto-Indo-European
- *gnod- Proto-Indo-European
- nodo Portuguese
- node Middle English
- nose Middle English
- neu Old French
- entrenús Catalan, Valencian
- nus Catalan, Valencian
- noadă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- nod Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- noeud Norman
- nyjë Albanian
- desnouement Middle French
- noo Old Portuguese
- nod Aromanian
- nous Old Occitan
- *ńiδa- urj-fpr-pro
- nuu Old Catalan