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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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗NixEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Named after the mother of Charon, goddess of darkness and night.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗NixEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + patronymic suffix -s.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗NixEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Clipping of Phoenix.
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization010
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resolvedestablishedposition text
Does the Phoenix hettende establish the first use of hettan?
No. It is one edited poetic occurrence of an ambiguous form. Without a complete witness comparison and direct manuscript inspection, it cannot establish the first token of the lemma.
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The Old English verb survives most visibly as an enemy.
The located weak-verb corpus inventory gives hettan only one form: hettende. Bosworth–Toller records that surface family repeatedly under hettend, “enemy” or “antagonist,” including Genesis and the Phoenix. The verb is therefore not a neat recovered paradigm; it is a lemma inferred at the edge between action, agent, and lexicalized foe.
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