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

Definitions

  1. now

Ancestry of “nau”, step by step

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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European nū →Every word from Proto-Germanic nu →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *nū →