nuh-uh (together with joho (“yuh-uh”)) · aha, I see, oh, OK (for something expressed in the negative or a contradicting piece of information) · no (expressing disagreement or denial)
– Nähä! – Joho!
– Du får inte gå ut ikväll. – Nähä, det var trist.
Nähäää, så det kan alltså inte varit han som gjorde det.
köken: Compare similar constructions with Norwegian Bokmål aldri i livet, Norwegian Nynorsk aldri i livet, German nie im Leben, Dutch nooit van je leven, French jamais de la vie and Russian никогда́ в жи́зни (nikogdá v žízni).
köken: From Old Irish béo (“alive”), from Proto-Celtic *biwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”). Compare Welsh byw.