nervousness

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Etymology tree English nervous Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English nervousness From nervous + -ness.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَوَتُّر (tawattur) — state or quality of being nervous
• Bulgarian: нервност (nervnost) — state or quality of being nervous
• Czech: nervozita — state or quality of being nervous
• Danish: nervøsitet — state or quality of being nervous
• Dutch: zenuwachtigheid — state or quality of being nervous
• Esperanto: nervozeco — state or quality of being nervous
• Esperanto: maltrankvileco — state or quality of being nervous
• Finnish: hermostuneisuus — state or quality of being nervous
• French: nervosité — state or quality of being nervous
• German: Nervosität — state or quality of being nervous
• German: Unruhe — state or quality of being nervous
• Hungarian: idegesség — state or quality of being nervous
• Italian: nervosismo — state or quality of being nervous
• Northern Kurdish: agirnokî — state or quality of being nervous
• Norwegian Bokmål: nervøsitet — state or quality of being nervous
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nervøsitet — state or quality of being nervous
• Portuguese: nervosismo — state or quality of being nervous
• Portuguese: nervosia — state or quality of being nervous
• Romanian: nervozitate — state or quality of being nervous
• Russian: не́рвность (nérvnostʹ) — state or quality of being nervous
• Russian: нерво́зность (nervóznostʹ) — state or quality of being nervous
• Slovak: nervozita — state or quality of being nervous
• Spanish: nerviosidad — state or quality of being nervous
• Spanish: nerviosismo — state or quality of being nervous
• Spanish: intranquilidad — state or quality of being nervous
• Swedish: oro — state or quality of being nervous
• Swedish: nervositet — state or quality of being nervous
• Turkish: gerginlik — state or quality of being nervous
• Turkish: heyecan — state or quality of being nervous
• Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر (siñir) — state or quality of being nervous
• Ukrainian: нерво́зність (nervóznistʹ) — state or quality of being nervous
• Ukrainian: нерво́вість (nervóvistʹ) — state or quality of being nervous
• Ukrainian: нервува́ння (nervuvánnja) — state or quality of being nervous
• Yoruba: ojora — state or quality of being nervous