The corpus record — Latin

nw

to go slowly

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Where it lives

Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. nw- — de Vaan

nw- 'to go slowly', η V- 'to shake', MoP navidan/nav- 'to shake, tremble; move (esp. when rising from a place)', Lith. niausti 'to bend'. nurus Numen and nutus can have *ne/ou- and -nuo can be from *-neuo. The thematic present is also found outside Italic, while the Lat noun and the ppp. were derived from the pr. , Bibl.: WH H: 189, EM 452, IEW 767, Meiser 2003: 235, Schumacher 2004: 491, LIV *neu-, —► cernuus … — [de Vaan, s.v. nw-, p. 433]

2. nw — Walde–Hofmann

nw (abret.) IJ 165, noz II 182 my II 175 oan 123 oaz I 15 ofen (vann.) I 84 oguet II 197 oll IT 332, 472 orgiat (abret.) II 288 ounoun II 820 ozach 188, II 350 pebr (nbret.) II 309 pellenn abre) II 302 pempät II 407 pempet II 408 pet dez, petguez II 412 pevare (nbret.) H 899 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nw, p. 1902]

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