nuitun (1212)
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nuitun (1212)

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  FEW:  Neptunus 7,97b Gdf:  luiton 1 5,51a / nuitin 5,546a / nuiton 5,546a GdfC:  lutin 10,101a TL: luiton 6,723 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  luiton 1  TLF:  lutin  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
nutin,  nutun  

The word is not related to nuit1 (‘night’) or nuisir (‘to harm, damage’), but its etymology has been linked with lutin (see DMF lutin) and explained in the FEW as a derivation of the name of the Roman God Neptunus, thus suggesting that the word initially must have referred to a sea creature.

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1mythologicalsmall and evil creature, goblin: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Quant singe fut, loufes fesoit E quant nuitun, forment crioit  8510
( MS: s.xiii )  Exubiaeque probant primum, probat incubus (gloss: nutin roche) illud  28
luitun 
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