## Meanings
1. An edible nut with a hard, wrinkled shell and a brain-shaped seed inside.
2. The tree that produces these nuts, or its hard dark-brown wood.
3. Having the dark brown colour of walnut wood.

## Examples
- She sprinkled chopped walnuts over the salad.
- The table was made of polished walnut.
- The desk had a rich walnut finish.

## Derived Forms
- walnutty
- walnuty

## Related Forms
- walshnut

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: walnote
- Root: wealhhnutu
- Root: *walhaz

## 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”.

## AI Etymology
Walnut is 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”. Important historical forms include Middle English walnote, Old English wealhhnutu, and Proto-Germanic *walhaz. In present-day use, it can mean a edible nut with a hard, wrinkled shell and a brain-shaped seed inside, or the tree that produces these nuts, or its hard dark-brown wood.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Plants & Agriculture

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