barely, hardly · just, recently, newly · as soon as
eş: a fatica, a mala pena, a stento, con difficoltà, faticosamente, stentatamente
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad poenam. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + pena (“pain, trouble”). Compare French à peine, Spanish apenas, etc.
Ti si sente appena con tutto questo baccano.
È appena arrivata, dalle un po' di tempo per riposarsi.
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).
köken: From Classical Azerbaijani دِگُلْ (degül), from Old Anatolian Turkish دِكُلْ (degül), from Proto-Turkic *tegül (“is not”). Cognate with Turkish değil, Turkmen däl.
köken: From a defective verb е- (e-) + -ме (-me) + -с (-s), the root is from Proto-Turkic *er- (“to be”). Cognate with Kyrgyz эмес (emes), Southern Altai эмес (emes), Uzbek emas, Shor эбес, Uyghur ئەمەس (emes).
Иә, сен күштісің, бірақ ең емес Иә, сен байсың, бірақ ең емес Әп-әдемі, бірақ ең емес Сен мен емес, сен мен емес
is not, are not (third-person negative predicative)
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ایماس (emäs), ایرماس (ermäs), from Proto-Common Turkic *ärmäz, negative aorist of copulative *är-. Cognate with Uyghur ئەمەس (emes), Kazakh емес (emes), Turkmen imes, Tuvan эвес (eves), etc.
not to be · not (negates verbs in future tense or nessesitative verbs)
eş: imes
köken: From Proto-Turkic *tegül (“is not”) Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tügül, “is not; not only”) (in Kul Tigin inscription); Karakhanid [script needed] (tegül, “is not”); Turkish değil, Kazakh түгiл (tügil), Kyrgyz түгүл (tügül), Karachay-Balkar тюл (tül), Azerbaijani deyil, Bashkir түгел (tügel), Uzbek tugul.
men gitjek däl
مشرقدین مغربه دنیانینک یوزی دیمانک بزه معلوم دالدور بو دنیا آبادی خرابی دریاسی دوزی یوز قرق آلتی منک آغاج یولدور بو دنیا
köken: Inconclusive. Whilst its current definition was long thought to have come from Indonesian hampir due to its exclusive presence in Dutch (and no other Germanic language), this would not explain its high and almost universal usage in Flemish. More likely would be if it originated on Dutch soil. In that case, the meaning would have changed somewhat from the earlier Middle Dutch amper (“sour”) –…
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.
hardly, barely (with difficulty) · hardly, barely, scarcely (in a very small measure) · only, just (no more than)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Vulgar Latin ad Proto-Indo-European *weyk- Proto-Italic *wiks Vulgar Latin vix Vulgar Latin *ad vix Romanian abi Romanian abia Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad vix, from ad + vix. The original form was abi, a variant found in some dialects; the final -a was added by analogy with adverbs like aci(a), aiure(a), acole(a). This suffixation…