Etymograph

English

Nutbush

From nut + bush.

A compound of nut + bush

Proto-Italic *knuks

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Proto-Germanic *hnuts

Proto-West Germanic *hnut

Old English hnutu

Middle English note

English nut

Proto-Germanic *buskaz ‘bush’

Proto-West Germanic *busk ‘bush’

Old English *busċ

Middle English bush ‘bush’

English bush

Today it means

name Nutbush, TN: An unincorporated town in Southwest Tennessee, about which Tina Turner wrote the 1973 song Nutbush City Limits.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Nutbush