Where does “nau” come from?
nau (Tok Pisin) 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.
nau (Tok Pisin): now
Ancestry of “nau”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | now | Present; current; Fashionable; popular; up to... |
| 2 | Middle English | nou | now |
| 3 | Old English | nū | now, at present, at this time, immediately, very... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *nū | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | nu | now |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | nū | now |