köken: From Middle High German hiute, from Old High German hiutu, a contraction of earlier *hiu tagu, from Proto-West Germanic *hiu dagu, from Proto-Germanic *hinō dagō (“on this day”, from *hiz + *dagaz). Cognate with Old English hēodæġ (“today”) and Dutch heden (“today”). Compare German heuer from hiu (“in this”) + jāru (“year”).
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic сего дьне (sego dĭne), from Proto-Slavic *se dьne / *sego dьne, from *sego, genitive of *sь (“this”) + *dьnь (“day”). Synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of сего́ (sevó) + дня́ (dnjá). Cognate with Belarusian сёння (sjónnja) and Ukrainian сього́дні (sʹohódni).
köken: Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Proto-Common Turkic [Term?], Proto-Turkic [Term?]. By surface analysis, bu (“this”) + kun (“sun; day”). Cognate with Uyghur بۈگۈن / bügün / бүгүн; Turkmen bugün, Azerbaijani bugün, буҝүн / [Term?], 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: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 烏捺 (Yale: *wonol), from 온〮 (Yale: wón, “which has come”, adnominal form of "to come") + Proto-Koreanic *hoL (“day”), etymologically "day that has come". Cognate with Jeju 오널 (oneol). In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 오ᄂᆞᆯ〮 (Yale: wònól).
today (this day) · nowadays, these days · today; Further details are uncertain.
eş: dzisiaj
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 Old Polish dzisiaclip. Old Polish dziś Polish dziś Inherited from Old Polish dziś. By surface analysis, clipping of dzisiaj. Compare Kashubian dzys.
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.