Gnu

GNU gnu gnú gnû German de:+s Etymology First used by Georg Forster Georg Forster in 1778, transcribing de en gnu gnoo, which he himself had introduced, a year earlier, in his en - work A Voyage Round the World A voyage round the world. Further from de naq !nu:, possibly via South African de nl -. While nl gnoe is only attested later on (common af - being af wildebees), it may nevertheless have existed because it would have been difficult for Forster to borrow the word directly from naq -. The earliest-ever European attestation seems to be in a fr - text of 1775 (in the form fr nou). Pronunciation de /ɡnuː/ de De-Gnu.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de uː 1 Noun n,,s gnu Declension n,,s Further reading de Antelopes