köken: From Old French alcun, from Vulgar Latin *alicunus, from Latin aliquī + unus. Cognate with Italian alcuno, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.
no, not (negative response to a yes-no question) · no, not (used for negation of statements in the indicative and contrafactual moods)
eş: ना, मत
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀡𑀳𑀺 (ṇahi) (with spontaneous nasalization), from Sanskrit नहि (nahí, “surely not”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *naǰʰí, from earlier *ná gʲʰí, from Proto-Indo-European *né + *gʰí. Cognate with Assamese নাই (nai), Bengali নাই (nai), Braj नहीं (nahī̃), Marathi नाही (nāhī) .
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…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne Proto-Slavic *ne Old Czech ne Czech ne Inherited from Old Czech ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne.
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")
a negative marker used for negating the meanings of verbs, adverbs, and adjectives: not
köken: From Malay tidak, from earlier tida, tiada with a vocative glottal stop, from Proto-Malayic *ti (“basic negator”) + *ada(ʔ) (“to exist”). Compare Malagasy tsy (“no”), tsiary (“no, not once”) and Musi tî', katî' (“to not have, there be no, nothing”). First attested in the Telaga Batu inscription, 683 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (tīdaʔ).