nötig

Meaning

Frequency

A2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

neetig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnøːtɪç/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German nœtic, nœtec, nōtic, nōtec, nōdic, from Old High German nōtag (“forced, urgent, needy”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudag (“obligatory, needful”), from Proto-Germanic *naudagaz, equivalent to Not + -ig. Cognate with German Low German nödig, English needy, Swedish nödig.

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