Knew, New, Know, No
To know something means to have a piece of information or a certain understanding of something. If someone tells you their phone number and you remember it, you know.
There's a reason you can find the word know in the word knowledge — to know is to have knowledge about something, to be familiar with an idea, or to recognize someone. If you're "in the know," you have information that is only known to a select group of people. Know comes from the Old English word cnawan, which means to know, to acknowledge, to declare. No means not any, not so, not to any degree, emphatically not, not a one, a negative answer. No may be used as an adverb, an adjective, a noun, or an exclamation. No is the opposite of yes, the plural form is noes. The word no is derived from the Old English words na and nan. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, no is one of the top one thousand most frequently used words in the English language. Knew is the past tense of the verb know, which means to be certain of a particular truth or fact, to be acquainted or familiar with, to understand or experience. New means fresh, not previously in existence, recently invented or discovered. New may also mean unused or not previously owned. New is primarily used as an adjective, though occasionally it is used as an adverb in combination of other words. Words related to the word new are newly, newness and newish. New comes from the Old English words neowe and niowe, which mean new, fresh, recent, novel, inexperienced. New is one of the one thousand most frequently used words, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. (Description from Vocabulary.com and the Grammarist) |