nötig
Meaning
-
necessary
Concepts
necessary
necessarily
needed
needful
need
cannot be helped
unavoidable
essential
required
requisite
Frequency
Hyphenated as
nö‧tig
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnøːtɪç/
Etymology
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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