note

note · noun, verb¹

1. Latin · derived fromnota“mark, sign, remark, note”
2. Old French · derived fromnote“letter, note”
3. Old English · inherited fromnot
4. Middle English · inherited fromnote
5. English todaynote

From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).

note · noun²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*newd-“to acquire, make use of”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*nutō“enjoyment, utilisation”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*notu
4. Old English · inherited fromnotu“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”
5. Middle English · inherited fromnote“use, usefulness, profit”
6. English todaynote

From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.

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