## Meanings
1. A small, hard fruit or seed with a tough shell, such as a peanut or walnut.
2. A small metal piece with a hole in the middle that screws onto a bolt to hold things together.
3. A person who is extremely enthusiastic about something.
4. A crazy or foolish person.

## Examples
- She added some chopped nuts to the salad.
- He tightened the nut with a wrench.
- My brother is a complete football nut.
- He drives like a nut on the motorway.

## Derived Forms
- astronut
- beechnut
- bitternut
- bladdernut
- bloodnut
- breadnut
- butternut
- candlenut
- cashew-nut
- clagnut
- coconut
- dicknut

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: note
- Root: hnutu
- Root: *hnut
- Root: *hnuts

## Etymology
From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.

## AI Etymology
Nut comes from Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt. Modern senses include a small, hard fruit or seed with a tough shell, such as a peanut or walnut and a small metal piece with a hole in the middle that screws onto a bolt to hold things together. The wider word family includes derivatives such as astronut, beechnut, bitternut, bladdernut, bloodnut, and breadnut.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Plants & Agriculture

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