Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A gentle push. · A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound. · The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice. · The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.
To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. · To near or come close to something. · To move slightly.
Circa 17th century, perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian nugge, nyggje (“to push, rub, shove”), Icelandic nugga (“to rub, massage”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *hnōjaną (“to smooth, join together”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (compare Ancient Greek κνάω (knáō, “to scratch, scrape”), source of English acnestis). Compare also Scots nodge (“to push, poke, nudge”), knidge (“to push, squeeze”), gnidge (“to rub, press, squeeze, bruise”), and knudge (“to squeeze, press down with the knuckles”), Saterland Frisian Nukke, Nuk (“a sudden push”), Middle Low German nucke, nücke, gnücke (“a sudden push, shock, impetus”). Compare also dialectal nuch (“to tremble”), Middle English nuchen (“to tremble”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Cognate mentionnuggeno
- Cognate mentionnuggais · to rub, massage
- Derivation mention*hnōjanągem-pro · to smooth, join together
- Derivation mention*kneh₂-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionκνάωgrc · to scratch, scrape
- Cognate mentionacnestisen
- Cognate mentionnodgesco · to push, poke, nudge
- Cognate mentionNukkestq
- Cognate mentionnuckegml
- Cognate mentionnuchenenm · to tremble
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