köken: From Middle Dutch gerne, gaerne, from Old Dutch *gerno, from Proto-West Germanic *gernō, from Proto-Germanic *gernô (“willingly, gladly”), an adverbial form of *gernaz (“willing”).
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek εὐχαρίστως (eukharístōs, “gratefully”), with semantic loan from French avec plaisir. By surface analysis, ευχάριστος (efcháristos) + -ως (-os).
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 Polish nie ma za co dziękowaćellip. Polish nie ma za co Ellipsis of nie ma za co dziękować. Compare French il n'y a pas de quoi, Romanian n-ai pentru ce.
köken: Literally, “that was so little” (also, "no big deal"). Similar to Swedish and Norwegian det var så lite, Icelandic það var lítið and Faroese tað var so lítið.