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Where does “nu” come from?

nu (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-Germanic nu, from Proto-Indo-European nū — now.

nu (Old Saxon): now

Definitions

  1. now

Ancestry of “nu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicnunow
2Proto-Indo-Europeannūnow
Every word from Proto-Indo-European nū →