Timeline for Meaning/Origin of word "Nixie"
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| Oct 16, 2022 at 19:43 | history | edited | Hellion | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2018 at 16:56 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @Mari-LouA Oh wow! I didn’t even realize there was a bounty on this Q. Thank you for the award! Would that only there were more interesting Qs like this that would give us opportunities to research and write up interesting answers. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 16:55 | history | bounty ended | Mari-Lou A | ||
| Sep 4, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I thought it a splendid answer. Thank you for writing up such an entertaining and enlightening answer. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 0:38 | vote | accept | DanSchneiderNA | ||
| Aug 25, 2018 at 0:10 | history | edited | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:25 | history | edited | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | The guy on the podcast is of course right that this is related to German negatives, but it’s clear he doesn’t speak any German himself. Nicht means ‘not’, and you wouldn’t say “Nicht! Nicht! Nicht!” to a German-speaking miscreant any more than you’d say “Not! Not! Not!” to its English cousin. If anything, you’d say “Nein!” or “No!”. So that particular (folk) etymology is bunkum. Nichts is a much more likely origin than nicht, having the additional benefit, as Wordster points out in his comment to the question, of very commonly becoming nix in colloquial German. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:15 | history | edited | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:11 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:01 | comment | added | Lambie | Not everyone is a native English speaker. Those from outside the English-speaking world may not know it. Do as you like. I'm easy unlike some around here. :) | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:58 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @njuffa Wonderful! Thanks for looking it up for us. I’ll edit that in. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:57 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @Lambie I kind of took it as a given that my readers (and of course OP, who lives along those people) are aware of Pennsylvania Dutch as a language. Didn’t think I needed to call that out explicitly? | |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:50 | comment | added | Lambie | Incorporate it into your answer: old order Mennonite and old order Amish still speak Pennsylvania Dutch. I have been there; it's amazing. The Amish and Mennonites live elsewhere too but Lancaster County is the main place for it. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:49 | comment | added | njuffa | The DARE entries are only mildly relevant: nixie n The young of the chipping sparrow. [...] NEng [...]. nixie adv Also sp nixy =nix adv 1.. nix adv [Ger nichts nothing] 1 No; definitely not! chiefly Nth See Map Cf nit adv, nixie adv. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:46 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @Lambie Thanks! What do you suggest I do with that reference? | |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:42 | comment | added | Lambie | This answer is very good. This is the reference you need: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_German_language Deitsch, Pennsylvania Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch aka Pennsylvania Dutch. And believe it or not, the towns of Blueball, Intercourse and Paradise are all in Lancaster County, where many Pennsylvania Dutch speakers [an old German dialect] live. | |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:04 | history | answered | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |