Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryIn need; poor. · Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence. · Needful; necessary.
From Middle English nedy, nedi (“necessitous”), from Old English nēdiġ, *nīediġ ("of need, obligated, compelled"; found in the derivative nīediġnes (“obligation”)), from Proto-Germanic *naudigaz (“of need, forced, compelled”), equivalent to need + -y. Cognate with Scots nedy, neidy (“needy, necessitous, impoverished”), Saterland Frisian niedich (“miserable, poor, wretched, needy”), Saterland Frisian nöödich (“necessary, needful”), West Frisian nedich (“needful, needed”), Dutch nodig (“necessary”), Middle Low German nōdich (“necessary, urgent, by requirement”), German nötig (“necessary, needful”), Danish nødig (“necessary”), Swedish nödig (“necessary”), Icelandic nauðugur (“constrained”).
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- Inherited-form mentionnedyenm
- Inherited-form mentionnēdiġang
- Inherited-form mention*naudigazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionnedysco
- Cognate mentionniedichstq
- Cognate mentionnöödichstq · necessary, needful
- Cognate mentionnedichfy · needful, needed
- Cognate mentionnodignl
- Cognate mentionnōdichgml
- Cognate mentionnötigde
- Cognate mentionnødigda
- Cognate mentionnödigsv
- Cognate mentionnauðuguris
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