köken: From Middle High German ne, ni (“not, if not”), from Old High German ne, ni (“no, not, not at all, by no means”), from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”). Also possibly from a contraction of nicht, dialectal net, nit, ni.
not, no, -n't, without · Idiomatic negative usage · perhaps not, whether ... or not
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né. Cognates include Lithuanian ne, Old English ne, German nicht, nie, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Irish ní, Latin ne, Sanskrit न (ná).
antonym of var (“there is, there are, there exists, there exist”): there is no, there are no, there does not exist, there do not exist · antonym of var (“to have”): to not have
köken: Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“there is not”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (yok), Turkish yok etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai یوق (ywq /yōq/), from Proto-Common Turkic *yōq, from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“no; is not, there is not”). Cognate with Uyghur يوق / yoq / йоқ (yoq); Turkmen ýōk, Azerbaijani yox, Turkish yok; Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (y¹q̊¹ /yoq/, “no; is not, there is not”); etc.
The negative verb or negation verb; not, be not, do not, etc.
köken: The indicative forms are from Proto-Finnic *e-, from Proto-Uralic *e- ~ *ä- ~ *a- (negative verb stem). The imperative forms are from Proto-Finnic *älä-, from the Proto-Finno-Ugric negative imperative verb stem *älä- ~ *elä-. Details and cognates Noteworthy forms include eivät (replacing earlier evät by influence from the third-person singular ei). For more forms, see the Proto-Finnic and…
aile: ehkei, ehtyä, ei-, ei lainkaan, ei ollenkaan, eih, eikä, eiköhän, eittämättä, eittää
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 Proto-Finno-Ugric *ne (“no, not”). In the Ob-Ugric languages, it has been used only in pronominal forms such as Northern Mansi нэ̄матыр (nè̄matyr, “nothing”), нэ̄мхо̄т (nè̄mhōt, “nowhere”), нэ̄мхуньт (nè̄mhunʹt, “never”) (Sosva) and Northern Khanty нємхуйат (nêmhujat, “nobody”) (Kazym) or нємәԓхуйат (nêməłhujat)/нємәԯхуйат (nêməłhujat) etc.