νυ
Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.
English (LSJ)
A v. νῦν 11. II νῦ, τό, indecl., the letter ν, Achae.33.3, Pl. Cra.414c, IG2.4321.21 (iv B.C.), BCH29.483 (Delos), BGU153.16 (ii A.D.). (Cf. Hebr. nūn.)
French (Bailly abrégé)
v. νυνί.
Greek Monolingual
(I)
το (Α νῡ)
άκλ. το δέκατο τρίτο γράμμα του ελληνικού αλφαβήτου
νεοελλ.
φρ. «με το νυ και με το σίγμα» — με κάθε λεπτομέρεια, με ακριβολογία.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Βλ. εγκυκλ. λ. Ν, ν].———————— (II)
νυ (Α)
επίρρ. (εγκλιτ. τ.) βλ. νυν.
Frisk Etymological English
νυν Grammatical information: pcle
Meaning: encl. part., rarely adv. now, νῦν adv. now (Il.), w. deict. -ι, νυν-ί (Att.; like ὁδ-ί etc.); on spread and use Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 57 ff. (also Risch Gnomon 30, 92).
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [770] *nu, nu now
Etymology: Old inherited adv., in several languages retained, e.g. Skt. nú, nū́, nūn-ám, Lat. nu-diūs tertius (it is) now the third day, num, nun-c, Germ., e. g. OHG nū, late MHG nūn, Lith. nũ, nù, nūn-aĩ, Hitt. nu (copul. part.), ki-nun now etc, s. WP. 2, 340, Pok. 770, W.-Hofmann s. nunc, Mayrhofer s. nūnám, Fraenkel s. nũ. -- Gr. νῦ-ν can have both old -m (Lat. nu-m) and -n (Skt. nūn-ám). The vowellength Specht wants KZ 59, 280ff. to explain as IE lengthening because of the final syllable; rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 22, 240 f.
