Where does “Nix” come from?
Nix comes from English Nyx, from Ancient Greek Νύξ and νύξ, from Proto-Indo-European nókʷts, ultimately from the root negʷ-.
Ancestry of “Nix”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Phoenix | — |
| 2 | Old French | fenix | phoenix |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | phenix | — |
| 4 | Latin | phoenīx | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Φοῖνιξ | Phoenician; Carthaginian |
| 6 | Mycenaean Greek | 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 | — |
| 7 | Egyptian | fnḫw | a people in Canaan or Syria, perhaps originally... |
| 8 | Egyptian | fnḫ | carpenter, woodcutter |