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This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nu (now). Cognate with Lithuanian (now, well now), Lithuanian nūnái (now, today, nowadays), Latin num (now), Latin nunc (now, soon, today, nowadays), Sanskrit नु (nu), नू (, now), Old Irish no-, Russian ны́не (nýne).

Pronunciation

Adverb

*nu

  1. now

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *nū
    • Old English:
    • Old Frisian:
      • Saterland Frisian: nu
      • West Frisian: no
    • Old Saxon:
      • Middle Low German:
        • Low German: nu
    • Old Dutch:
      • Middle Dutch: nu
    • Old High German: nu,
  • Old Norse: , ᚾᚢ (nu), ᚿᚢ (nu)
    • Icelandic: , núna
    • Faroese: , núgv
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: no; (chiefly dialectal)
    • Norwegian Bokmål:
    • Jamtish:
    • Elfdalian:
    • Old Swedish:
      • Swedish: nu
    • Danish: nu
      • Norwegian Bokmål: nu (Riksmål)
  • Gothic: 𐌽𐌿 (nu)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*nū”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 392