köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. French in- Borrowed from Latin in-, from Proto-Italic *n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-, from *né.
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).
Added to adjectives to yield their opposites; un- · Added to nouns to mean lack or being without
köken: From Old Swedish ō-, from Old Norse ú-, ó-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from the Proto-Indo-European *n̥- whence also Greek α- (a-) and English un-.
Used to invert the meaning of a word: in-, non-, un-, dis-, mis-, mal-
köken: From Proto-Finnic *epä. Originally active present participle (-pä) of the negative verb stem *e-; see ei. Cognate with Estonian eba-, Livonian äb, Moksha аф (af), Erzya апак (apak). The original use of this prefix was in words like epäkelpo (originally “that does not suffice”) and epänäköinen (from näkö (“vision”), “that does not see, that has no vision”). Its use as a general negating prefix is…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- Middle French mal- French mal-bor. Esperanto mal- Borrowed from French mal- in its secondary sense of denoting the opposite.
aile: mala, malo, male
mal- + alta (“high”) → malalta (“low”)
mal- + ami (“to love”) → malami (“to hate”)
mal- + dekstra (“right”) → maldekstra (“left”)
ione-
nnikkje-, mis-, u-, van-
Etimoloji
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁énder. Proto-Slavic *vъ(n) Proto-Slavic *vъ- Old Polish w- Polish w- Inherited from Old Polish w-.