Where does “noonday” come from?
I notice the chain provided has problems: it lists "Latin nomen" twice, includes unrelated words (English "day" and "nine"), and lacks a coherent etymological path to "noonday." Without a reliable chain showing how "noonday" developed through earlier languages, I cannot write an accurate etymology sentence. Could you provide a corrected chain? A proper one would trace "noonday" back through Middle English, Old English, and potentially Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European ancestors, showing the actual linguistic path for this compound word.
noonday (English): The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is...
Definitions
- The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is...
Ancestry of “noonday”, step by step
noonday traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English noon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | noon | The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise;... |
| 2 | Middle English | noen | — |
| 3 | Old English | nōn | noon; the ninth hour; the ninth hour |
| 4 | Latin | nōna | nones canonical hour |
| 5 | Latin | nōnus | ninth |
| 6 | Latin | novenos | accusative masculine plural of novēnus |
| 7 | Latin | novem | nine; 9; first-person singular present active... |
| 8 | Latin | novo | I make new, renew, refresh; I alter, change;... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | nowāō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | néweh₂ti | to renew |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | néwos | new |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | new- | new; to nod, assent to |