Where does “nowcast” come from?

nowcast (English) comes from English now, from Middle English nou, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic nu, from Proto-Indo-European nū — now.

nowcast (English): A weather forecast predicting the weather for a...

Definitions

  1. A weather forecast predicting the weather for a...

Ancestry of “nowcast”, step by step

nowcast traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English now

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnowPresent; current; Fashionable; popular; up to...
2Middle Englishnounow
3Old Englishnūnow, at present, at this time, immediately, very...
4Proto-West Germanic*nūnow
5Proto-Germanicnunow
6Proto-Indo-Europeannūnow

via English forecast

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishforecastTo estimate how something will be in the future;...
2Middle Englishforecast—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European nū →