today, on the current day or date · today, nowadays, these days
köken: From *bügün "today", composed from bu "this" + kün "day". Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bükün, “today”); Tatar бүген (bügen), Kazakh бүгін, Kyrgyz, Yakut бүгүн (bügün), Uzbek bugun, Uyghur بۈگۈن (bügün), Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Turkish bugün, etc.
köken: From Middle Chinese compound 今日 (MC kim nyit). Compare modern Taishanese reading gim¹ ngit⁴. The goon, so likely the original reading of the term as first borrowed from Middle Chinese.
köken: From hōc + diē (locative singular), literally “on this day”; a construction found in Old Latin, and also used in crāstinī diē (“tomorrow”, literally “on tomorrow's day”). Compare Welsh heddiw, Breton hiziv, German heute (“today”), Russian сего́дня (sevódnja, “today”), which are semantically the same construction, but with etymologically unrelated roots, and hence are not cognates.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *dein-der. Proto-Slavic *dьnь Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sь Proto-Slavic *dьnьsь Slovak dnes Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьnьsь. Compare to Slovene dánes and Bulgarian днес (dnes).