Older Greek still had the w in it, written as a digamma: newos.
A very neat, clean cognate with English "new." Pretty much the exact same form, 2000 years after the breakup of Indo-European, with the same meaning.
In Slavic "nov-": In Slavic "ew"+ vowel regularly became "ow" + vowel. So *newos > nov-. Novgorod "Newtown" is a city in NW Russia, for instance. Novi Sad is a town in Serbia.
"Nae" in Hindi, but that's normal: The root's na-, and all "o" and "a" became "a". Persian has "nou". Their traditional new year is "Nouruz," meaning "New day".
A neo-Nazi is a "new Nazi". Different but similar. A neo-liberal is a "new liberal". Different but similar. A neo-conservative is a "new conservative." Different, but similar (and, oddly, the word was coined not for conservatives of a different stripe but for some old-school liberals or progressives who became new conservatives. Ronald Radosh and his ilk. You have to look very carefully to see how the neo-____ differs from the original because different people use the words in different ways without bothering to notice. Paleo-conservatives were not neo-conservatives, by any stretch of the imagination, nor were neo-liberals just recently minted paleo-liberals.)
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