to bear or rest upon something, lean on · to be supported by; to rely on; to trust; to be based on · to press forward, advance
çekim: ortaç nīsus · şimdiki nītitur · ulaç nītēns
köken: Disputed. * De Vaan suggests that, based on the form nīxus, it is likely that the original root ended with a velar. According to De Vaan, it may be connected with the root Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to bend, to droop”), whence also possibly Latin connīveō. If the term is related to connīveō, then gnixus—a supposedly archaic form mentioned by Festus—may genuinely reflect an archaic stage of…