köken: From Old Anatolian Turkish امدی (emdi), from Proto-Turkic *em- (“now”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰢𐱃𐰃 (amtï, “now”). Compare Turkish şimdi (“now”), (indi, emdi, şindi, şincik, dialectal forms exist and widely understood), Tatar инде (inde, “now”), Uzbek endi (“now”), Tuvan ам (am, “now”), Chuvash ӗнтӗ (ĕnt̬ĕ, “now”).
köken: From Middle Dutch heden, also hude, huden, from Old Dutch hiudo, a contraction of the instrumental phrase *hiu dago (“on this day”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiu dagu, from Proto-Germanic *hinō dagō (*hiz + *dagaz). The appearance of the vowel -e- is unusual, the expected form in modern Dutch would be *huide(n), compare huidig. Cognate with Old Saxon hiudu, hūdigu, German heute, West Frisian…
aile: hedendaags, hedendag, hedenmeer, hedenmorgen, hedennacht, hedenochtend, tot heden, tot op heden
We moeten in het heden leven, niet in het verleden.
Yunancaεπί των ημερών μας, στις μέρες μας, τώρα, τώρα που /ˈtoɾa/
αυτή τη στιγμή που μιλώ
köken: From Koine Greek τώρα (tṓra), from Ancient Greek τῇ ὥρᾳ (tēî hṓrāi), from τῇ (tēî) + ὥρα (hṓra).
köken: Etymology tree Latin āctus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin āctuālisbor. Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish aktualny Proto-Slavic *-e Old Polish -ie Polish -ie Polish aktualnie From aktualny + -ie. First attested in the first half of the 18th c.
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian заразъ (zaraz), the stress and geographical spread of the word hint at borrowing from Polish zaraz. Compare Ukrainian зара́з (zaráz, “all at once”).
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agora, from Latin hāc hōrā. Compare Galician agora and Spanish ahora. To a lesser extent, compare also Italian ora and Old French ore.