köken: From Middle High German nihtes niht (“nothing of nothing”), a reenforcing construction with niht. Compare French rien de rien, Spanish nada de nada. See nicht. Cognate with Dutch niets, Low German nix, Hunsrik nichs.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish nada, inherited from Latin (nūlla rēs) nāta (literally “no born thing, not a thing born”), an extension of nēmō nātus (“not a soul”, literally “nobody born”). For descendants of the other part of the expression see Galician ren (“nothing”), French rien (“nothing”), Catalan res (“nothing; anything”). For the grammaticalization of an original nominal as a negative see…
aile: a nada de, ahí es nada, antes de nada, antes que nada, así que nada, casi nada, centro de la nada, como si nada, de la nada, de nada
eş: affatto, in alcun modo, nulla, punto, nessuna cosa, nulla
köken: From an earlier neente, either from Latin ne gentem (“no person, no one”), nec entem, ne entem, or ne inde. Compare Old Catalan nient, Sicilian nenti, Piedmontese gnente, Occitan neient, French néant. The regional pronunciation with initial self-gemination of /nj-/ is by speakers who try to correct the /ɲ-/ because of the orthography, but keep the syllable structure, and thus gemination, of the…
köken: From Middle Dutch niets, from Old Dutch niewihts, niewehts, partitive genitive of niewiht (whence modern niet). Cognate with German nichts. By surface analysis, n- + iets or niet + -s.
aile: niets nieuws onder de zon, nietsdoen, nietsnut, nietsontziend, nietsvermoedend, nietszeggend
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek τίποτα (típota), a commonly used variant form of τίποτε (típote). Both forms from the Ancient Greek τίποτε (típote, “what maybe?”), also as phrase τί ποτε (tí pote). Sense "something" is Hellenistic.
aile: δεν κάνει τίποτα, με τίποτα, τιποτένιος, τιποτολογία
köken: From ingen (“no”) + ting (“things”). The reason ingen ends with an -n and not with a -t is because it is actually the old neuter plural, thus this phrase originally means "no things". Compare allting, någonting.
Ingenting som vi gör är tabu, inget stoppar oss nu.
Vem vet? Inte du. Vem vet? Inte jag. Vi vet ingenting nu. Vi vet inget idag.
eş: pranic, ani ň, velký kulový, stará bela, hovno, prd
zıt: něco
köken: Inherited from Old Czech ničs, from Proto-Slavic *ničьso (originally Proto-Slavic *ničeso), an (archaic and synchronically irregular) variant of genitive. Compare with Polish nic. By surface analysis, ni- + co.
köken: The popular folk etymology כְּ־ (k'-, “like”, comparative prefix) + *לוּם (lúm), a supposedly rare word meaning "olive pit", thus "something as small as an olive pit; anything at all," is unsupported.
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