Etymology

anew

A1N1E1W4

Today it means: Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly. Full definition →

Middle English onew ← Old English of niowe
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromof niowe
  2. Middle English · inherited fromonew
  3. English todayanew

From Middle English onew, of newe, from Old English of niowe. By surface analysis, a- (“of, from”) + new.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.