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NixEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Named after the mother of Charon, goddess of darkness and night.
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From Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + patronymic suffix -s.
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Clipping of Phoenix.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nixEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nixEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”) whence English nicker.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- NixEnglish · e-38699-361
Nix, niks, n. (Teut. myth.) a water-spirit, mostly malignant.—Also Nix′ie, Nix′y. [Ger. nix; cf. Nicker.]
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Nix, niks, n. nothing: (U.S.) in the postal service, anything unmailable because addressed to places which are not post-offices or to post-offices not existing in the States, &c., indicated in the address—usually in pl.
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Nix, niks, interj. a roughs' street-cry of warning at the policeman, &c.
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