köken: From Old French alcun, from Vulgar Latin *alicunus, from Latin aliquī + unus. Cognate with Italian alcuno, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ešče (“still, yet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁). Cognate with Belarusian яшчэ (jašče), Ukrainian ще (šče), Polish jeszcze.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese algũu, from Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from Latin aliquis + ūnus. Compare Spanish alguno, French aucun, Italian alcuno.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Balto-Slavic *is Proto-Slavic *jь Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kas Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *jakъ Old Polish jaki Polish jaki Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sьder. Old Polish -ś Polish -ś Polish jakiś From jaki + -ś. First attested in 1534. Compare…
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀇 m sg (koi, “someone, something”, nominative). See there for more. Cognate to Awadhi कोई (koī), Braj कोऊ (koū), Punjabi ਕੋਈ (koī), Gujarati કોઈ (koī), Marathi कुणी (kuṇī), Bengali কেউ (keu), Bhojpuri केऊ (kēū), Assamese কেও (keü), Sinhalese කොයි (koyi). Originally the masculine nominative singular form of a paradigm whose neuter form became कुछ (kuch) and genitive form…
neither, not ... either (also not) · Used to emphasize lack of alternatives. · Used to soften a question, e.g. when the speaker is asking to be reminded of something, or when the speaker is seeking agreement or confirmation.
zıt: -kin
köken: According to Hakulinen, from earlier *-kahan, composed of -ka (as seen in joka and kuka) and -han, and why the particle is restricted to contexts with negative polarity is not clear. Räisänen (1996) presents an alternative etymology, in which the particle originates from the partitive forms of indefinite pronouns like ketään, mitään, in which it is developed from a reduction of -ka through…
neither, neither one · neuter (gender) · neuter, intransitive (of a verb)
köken: Etymology tree Latin ne Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros Proto-Italic *kʷoteros Latin uter Latin neuter From ne (“not”) + uter (“either”). In the grammatical sense, a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros), from οὐδέ (oudé, “not”) + ἕτερος (héteros, “one or the other (of two)”).
köken: From Old Danish hwærkin, hwærki, from Old Norse hvárki, cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk korkje, Swedish varken. The neuter of the Old Norse pronoun hvár(r)gi (“either, neither”), from hvárr (“which (of two)”) + -gi (“no”). The first part goes back to Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz (“which (of two)”), cognate with English whether, German weder (“neither”).
always in the combination: hverken … eller "neither … nor" (also after a negative, meaning "either … or")