Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA requirement for something; something needed. · A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal. · Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w-der. Proto-Germanic *naudiz Proto-West Germanic *naudi Old English nīed Middle English nede English need From Middle English nede, a merger of two terms: * Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“death”). * Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *niudi (“desire, eagerness”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”).
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- Inherited-form mentionnedeenm
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- Inherited-form mention*naudigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*naudizgem-pro
- Derivation mention*neh₂w-ine-pro · death
- Inherited-form mentionnēodang · desire, longing
- Inherited-form mention*niudigmw-pro · desire, eagerness
- Derivation mention*new-ine-pro
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