new

Examples: "I can see the new from here." "That new belongs to me." "The new is very important."

Middle English {it}newe, new, nywe,{/it} going back to Old English {it}nīowe, nīewe, nēowe,{/it} going back to Germanic {it}*neuja-{/it} (whence Old Saxon & Old High German {it}niuwi{/it} "new," Middle Dutch {it}nieuwe, nûwe,{/it} Old Norse {it}nýr,{/it} Gothic {it}niujis{/it}), going back to Indo-European {it}*neu̯i̯o-,{/it} derivative of {it}*neu̯o-{/it} "new, young," whence Latin {it}novus{/it} "new" (from {it}*newos{/it}), Greek {it}néos{/it} "young, fresh, new," Tocharian A {it}ñu{/it} "new," Tocharian B {it}ñuwe,{/it} Sanskrit {it}návaḥ{/it} "new, fresh, young," Avestan {it}nauua-,{/it} Hittite {it}nēwa-{/it} "new"; also, going back to presumed ablaut variant, {it}*nou̯o-{/it} (whence Old Church Slavic {it}novŭ{/it} "new, recent") and {it}*nou̯i̯o-{/it} (whence Old Irish {it}náue, nuae{/it} "new, fresh," Welsh {it}newydd,{/it} Lithuanian {it}naũjas{/it} "new," Sanskrit {it}návyaḥ{/it} "new, young"); also, going back to a derivative {it}*neu̯ǝro-{/it} (parallel to Greek {it}nearós{/it} "youthful, tender"), Armenian {it}nor{/it} "new"