next – English noun declension

Noun: next

Singular

next

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like next

greyware, chronotropy, urgrund, cytosorting, homekeeping, pedobaiting, winterdress, JLNS, rumpology, hopkinsiaxanthin, enchylemma, further education, hexobendine, humdrumminess, unobligingness, backscroll, telocinobufagin, dosulepin, mensuralism, crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est.
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
3. Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”). See: Middle English Nouns 'nexte', Old English Nouns 'nīehsta', Danish Nouns 'næste', Swedish Nouns 'näst'.