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I am not sure that meaning is actually correct. That meaning is probably derived from nitya -> nit (ever) + nava (new). Unfortunately, I do not know enough Punjabi to know if that combination into navaneet is possible. In most modern IA (north Indian) languages, one would probably just get nityanava (the qualifier typically goes before the qualified) or some phonetic transformation of that. The few Punjabi examples I know have the same pattern, so I am, a priori, skeptical of this meaning.

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navaneeta does exist in Sanskrit in the meaning of butter (see an earlier post of mine a few days back for the details of the meaning; in short it is newly acquired wealth), and similar words have been used in North India (I do not know enough about South India) for children's names.

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Tanmoy

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