eş: affatto, in alcun modo, nulla, punto, nessuna cosa, nulla
köken: From an earlier neente, either from Latin ne gentem (“no person, no one”), nec entem, ne entem, or ne inde. Compare Old Catalan nient, Sicilian nenti, Piedmontese gnente, Occitan neient, French néant. The regional pronunciation with initial self-gemination of /nj-/ is by speakers who try to correct the /ɲ-/ because of the orthography, but keep the syllable structure, and thus gemination, of the…
Cosa fai? Niente.
Hai bisogno di niente?
Non voglio niente da mangiare.
Rusçaво́все нет, запреща́ть, на здоро́вье, не́ за что, не сто́ит благода́рности, ничего́
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek καθόλου (kathólou) from Ancient Greek καθ’ (kath’) + ὅλου (hólou) "on the whole, generally", genitive of ὅλος (hólos, “whole, all”).
yes (in response to negative questions), disagree · Response to words of gratitude.
eş: ううん
zıt: はい, うん
köken: /ina/ → /ija/ → /ije/ → /iːe/ First cited to the late 1600s. Shift from いや (iya), from even earlier 否 (ina). While いや (iya) was broadly used in the Muromachi period, in the Edo period, いや (iya) shifted to use mainly in informal or more intimate contexts, while いいえ (īe) was used in more formal or polite contexts. いや (iya) is still in use, including broader senses not included for いいえ (īe).
köken: Etymology tree Ecclesiastical Latin annūllōbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish anulować From Ecclesiastical Latin annūllō + Polish -ować.
köken: The popular folk etymology כְּ־ (k'-, “like”, comparative prefix) + *לוּם (lúm), a supposedly rare word meaning "olive pit", thus "something as small as an olive pit; anything at all," is unsupported.
Talmud Bavli, Maseches Pesachim 87b כלום אדם זורע סאה אלא להכניס כמה כורין