[lgrebe]

Jetzig reads funny in german something like "now-ish"

Jetzt = now [1]

German adjective suffix: -ig [2] The German suffix -ig attaches to nouns, verbs and even adverbs. Given this flexibility, it ranks among the most common adjective endings in German. You can use -ig words to express that something is a certain way or happens a certain way. traurig: sad, sadly wässrig: watery knackig: crunchy, crispy abhängig: dependent, addicted geizig: stingy

[1] https://de.pons.com/übersetzung-2/deutsch-englisch/jetzt [2] https://www.lingoda.com/blog/en/german-adjective-suffixes/

[unwind]

The "-ig" suffix corresponds roughly to English's "-ish", I would say. As a native speaker of neither German nor English, though.

[rendx]

It doesn't merely sound like it, it is a German word, translating to current/present.

https://www.dwds.de/wb/jetzig

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/jetzig

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/jetzig

[Onavo]

It's a perfectly fine name. There's a billion dollar web framework company named Zeit which famously built https://now.sh

[moritzruth]

They rebranded to Vercel, most likely because Zeit turned out to not be a perfectly fine name.

[justin66]

I'd propose Zig have a specific version for Germany and call it Z-Germans.

[juliangmp]

Do you mean because of the newspaper called _Die Zeit_?