Walnuss

• Walnuß (pre-1996)

17th century, from Low German, from Middle Low German walnut, from Proto-West Germanic *walhahnut, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreign”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, English walnut, and (from Middle Low German) Danish valnød etc. Equivalent to wal- (related with welsch) + Nuss; compare Middle High German welhisch nuz (alongside boumnuz). Possibly a calque of Latin nux gallica (or rather vice versa, the other way round, the Latin expression itself being a calque of German[ic]^[1]), but the name may merely describe the foreign origin as such; compare Finnish saksanpähkinä (literally “German nut”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvalˌnʊs/

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• (Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria) IPA^(key): /ˈvaːlˌnʊs/

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Walnuss f (genitive Walnuss, plural Walnüsse)

1. walnut

   Synonyms: (southern) Welschnuss, (Switzerland) Baumnuss

2. walnut tree

   Synonyms: Nussbaum, Walnussbaum

• The spelling Walnuss has been the prescribed spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform). In Switzerland and Liechtenstein, it had already been standard since ⟨ß⟩ was deprecated in the 1930s.

• welsch

• “Walnuss” in Duden online
• “Walnuss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache