Where does “newfangled” come from?

Newfangled comes from English new, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European new-, a root also found in Proto-Germanic niwjaz and Old English nīwe, meaning "new" or "recently made."

newfangled (English): Modern, unfamiliar, or different

Definitions

  1. Modern, unfamiliar, or different

Ancestry of “newfangled”, step by step

newfangled traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English New

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishNewmade, or created
2EnglishMANInitialism of Metropolitan Area Network
3EnglishmanualA handbook; A booklet that instructs on the usage...
4Middle Englishmanuel
5Anglo-Normanmanuelmanual; done with the hands; handle; manual;...
6Old Frenchmanual
7Latinmanuālishand
8Latinmanushand; bravery, valor; violence, fighting
9Proto-Italicmanushand
10Proto-Indo-Europeanman-human being; man; hand

via English fangled

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishfangledsimple past tense and past participle of fangle

Words derived from “newfangled

Every word from Proto-Indo-European man-
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