not (negation, denial, refusal) · not (in a question, expecting a positive answer) · isn’t it so (postponed, turning an affirmative utterance into a question)
eş: ej, ikke sandt?, ikke også?
zıt: vel
köken: From Old Norse ekki (“not”), cognate with Jutish itt, Swedish icke, inte. The neuter of the Old Norse pronoun engi (“nobody, no”), see ingen.
aile: det ved jeg ikke, heller ikke, jeg forstår ikke, slet ikke
köken: Cognate with Muong chi. See chi, the form without lenition and the form for the interrogative "what" in the Central dialects (both the North Central dialects from Nghệ An to Huế, and the South Central dialects of Đà Nẵng-Quảng Nam-Quảng Ngãi). Further south, the Southern dialects keep native chi with the meaning "what for" and in compounds, but borrowed gì from the Northern dialects for the…
aile: cái gì, gì cũng, gì nữa, gì thì gì, hèn gì, huống gì, khác gì, không có gì, làm gì, mùi gì