In the Bible, some important "new" beginnings are the following.

• The creation.
• After the flood.
• The new covenant/testament.
• After the resurrection.

On to more "beginnings".

The Hebrew word "בראשית" (ba-re-sheet) ≈ "In the beginning". We will come back to the English words for "beginning" as will the Russian word "начале" (na-cha-le) ≈ "beginning".

At the Last Supper, Jesus speaks the words that give the name to the "New Testament".

This "New Testament" or "New Covenant" (some ward in the GNT (Greek New Testament)) is an interesting topic. This "New Testament" does not replace all other "Covenants".

Here we are interested in the "new". A general distinction is that testament and covenant are not the same.

• testament - statement
• covenant - contract

The English word "new" "new" is similar among many PIE languages from the PIE root "*NEWOS" ≈ "new".

• The modern Greek word "νέος" (NEH-os) ≈ "new" as in young and is used in the GNT but to refer to "young" men.
• The Latin word "novum" ≈ "new" from which we get the English word "novel"
• The Spanish word "nuevo" ≈ "new".
• The Old Church Slavonic word "новый" ≈ "new".
• The Russian word "новый" (no-vwee) ≈ "new".
• The Old English word "niwe" ≈ "new".
• The Middle English word "newe" ≈ "new".
• The German word "neue" ≈ "new".
• The Sanskrit word "नव्य" (naviya) ≈ "new"
• The Hindi word "नया" (naya) ≈ "new".

The modern Greek word "καινός" (keh-NOS) ≈ "new" (which as an adjective can take many different endings). More on this below.

Let us look at the word "recent".

• The Latin word "recens" ≈ "recent, fresh" and from which we get the English word "recent".

Wycliffe, which follows the Latin, and the Latin, move the "there is no new thing under the sun" to the next verse.

The Latin Vulgate uses "recens" as fresh or new instead of the word "novum".

To make "new" again is "renewing".

The modern Greek word "καινός" (keh-NOS) ≈ "new" (mentioned above) and is related to other PIE language words for "new".

• The Sanskrit word "कनीन" (kanina) ≈ "young".
• The Latin word "recens" ≈ "recent" is related from prefix "re" and "cens" where the "c" originally had a "k" sound.
• The Russian word "начале" (na-cha-le) ≈ "beginning" is related but more distant.

The Cenozoic (or Kainozoic) period from archeology is from the modern Greek word "κοινός" (kee-NOS) ≈ "new" (discussed above) and the modern Greek word "ζωή" (zo-EE) ≈ "life" from which we get words such as "zoo", "zoology", etc.

The PIE root "ken" ≈ "new, begin" is the source of these similarities in "new" and "begin"

• The Middle English word "beginnen" ≈ "begin".
• The Old English word "beginnan" ≈ "begin".
• The German word "beginnen" ≈ "begin".

These Germanic words form from the prefix "be-" as one way to modify or intensify, etc., a verb, in this case, from "*ginnana" as found in the Old English word "onginnan" ≈ "begin" or the Old English word "anginne" ≈ "beginning".

• The Latin word "initia" ≈ "beginning" and from which we get the English words "initiate", "initial", etc.
• The modern Greek word "αρχή" (ar-KHEE) ≈ "beginning" and from which we get the English word "archaic".

Following the Latin Vulgate, the Wessex Gospels and Wycliffe use "begin" and "end" rather than "fulfilled".

The hard "g" sound is related to the hard "ch" sound (which can soften, as in Russian), and is related to the "k" sound.

Thus, the "ginnan" in Old and Middle English, as in "gin" of "begin" of modern English, is related to the "cens" (with hard "c") in Latin "recens" (for "recent") is related to the "καινός" in Greek.

A more distant connection (with more ending consonant change) is the Russian "начало" or "нача́ть" (both meaning "begin") where the original "n" morphed into the "t" or "l" sound.

There is an Middle/Old English word "gin" that means to "begin" as a shortened form of "beginnen" or "ginnen".

However, the phrase to "gin up" appears to come from the "gin" that is a shortened form of "engine" that was used, for example, to refer to the "cotton gin".

The popular song "Begin the Beguine" was written by Cole Porter in 1935 while on a cruise in the Pacific. It become more poplar after the 1940 musical movie "Broadway Melody" where Fred Astaire and Elanor Powell danced to the song. Since that time, many musicians and performers have recorded that song.

The Beguine was a dance (and music) from the 1930's Pacific islands, sometimes described as a "slow rhumba".