Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one. · Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following. · So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned. · On the first subsequent occasion.
The one that follows after this one. · Next match
Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. · Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time. · Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. · Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”). Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionnexteenm
- Inherited-form mentionnīehstaang
- Inherited-form mention*nēhwistgem-pro · nearest, closest
- Cognate mentionnaiststq · next
- Cognate mentionnaastnl · next to
- Cognate mentionnächsterde · next
- Cognate mentionנעקסטyi · next
- Cognate mentionnæsteda · next
- Cognate mentionnestovd · by, near
- Cognate mentionnæstis · next
- Cognate mentionnästsv
- Cognate mentionنزدfa · near, with
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