now
English
/naʊ/
adj
Definitions
- Present; current.
- (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
- (archaic) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English now inherited from Old English nū (now, immediately, at present, very recently, at this time) inherited from Proto-Germanic *nu (now) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *nū (now).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*nū
Gloss
now
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
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Kanji
今
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adays English
- benow English
- ere English
- erenow English
- noo English
- nowadays English
- nowish English
- nowness English
- nunc stans English
- etiamnum Latin
- num Latin
- nunc Latin
- nu German
- nu Dutch, Flemish
- но Russian
- νῦν Ancient Greek
- *nu Proto-Indo-European
- *nū Proto-Indo-European
- nå Norwegian Bokmål
- nålevende Norwegian Bokmål
- nåtid Norwegian Bokmål
- nåværende Norwegian Bokmål
- *nu Proto-Germanic
- ナウ Japanese
- ナウい Japanese
- no Norwegian Nynorsk
- noverande Norwegian Nynorsk
- nå Norwegian Nynorsk
- oppnå Norwegian Nynorsk
- nu Old English
- nū Old English
- नु Sanskrit
- now Middle English
- nú Old Norse
- nu Danish
- nudansk Danish
- nutid Danish
- nuværende Danish
- *nъ Proto-Slavic
- nú Icelandic
- nútími Icelandic
- nútíð Icelandic
- nu Middle Dutch
- no- Old Irish
- nu Middle High German
- ni Albanian
- 𐌽𐌿 Gothic
- *nu Old Dutch
- nu Old Dutch
- nū Old Dutch
- nu Pali
- nu Old Saxon
- noo Scots
- nau Tok Pisin
- *nū Proto-Albanian
- nü North Frisian