नु [ nu ] [ nú ]1 ind. ( in Lit. RV. also [ nū́ ] ; esp. at the beginning of a verse , where often = [ nú ] + [ u ] ) , now , still , just , at once

so now , now then Lit. RV. Lit. AV. Lit. Br. Lit. Up.

indeed , certainly , surely Lit. RV.

cf. Lit. Pāṇ. 3-2 , 121 Sch. ( often connected with other particles , esp. with negatives e.g. [ nahí nú ] , " by no means " , [ nákir nú ] , " no one or nothing at all " , [ mā́ nú ] , " in order that surely not " ; often also [ gha nu ] , [ ha nu ] , [ in nu ] , [ nu kam ] ( [ nū́ cit ] , either " for ever , evermore ; at once , forthwith " or , " never , never more " ; so also [ nū ] alone Lit. RV. vii , 100 , 1 ) ; with relat. = -cunque or -soever ; sometimes it lays stress upon a preceding word , esp. an interr. pronoun or particle , and is then often connected with [ khalu ] Lit. RV. ; it is also employed in questions , esp. in sentences of two or more clauses ( cf. Lit. Pāṇ. 8-2 , 98 Lit. Kāś. ) where [ nu ] is either always repeated ( Lit. Śak. vi , 9 ) or omitted in the first place ( ib. i , 8 ) or in the second place and further replaced by [ svid ] , [ yadi vā ] , and strengthened by [ vā ] , [ atha vā ] ) ( cf. 1. [ náva ] , [ nū́tana ] , [ nūnám ] ; Zd. (nū) ; Gk. 1 , 2 ; Lat. (nun-c) ; Germ. (nu) , (nun) ; Angl.Sax. (nu) , (nū) ; Eng. (now) . ) ( 567,1 )