köken: From Middle High German nihtes niht (“nothing of nothing”), a reenforcing construction with niht. Compare French rien de rien, Spanish nada de nada. See nicht. Cognate with Dutch niets, Low German nix, Hunsrik nichs.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek τίποτα (típota), a commonly used variant form of τίποτε (típote). Both forms from the Ancient Greek τίποτε (típote, “what maybe?”), also as phrase τί ποτε (tí pote). Sense "something" is Hellenistic.
aile: δεν κάνει τίποτα, με τίποτα, τιποτένιος, τιποτολογία