köken: From Old French alcun, from Vulgar Latin *alicunus, from Latin aliquī + unus. Cognate with Italian alcuno, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.
eş: neppure uno, nemmeno uno, non uno, alcuno, qualche, inconsistente
köken: From Latin nē (“not”) + ipse (emphatic, literally “himself”) + ūnus (“one”), by surface analysis “not even one”. Cognate with Neapolitan nisciuno, Sardinian nisciunu, Friulian nissun, Ligurian nisciǜn, and Old French neisune. Compare Spanish ninguno and Romanian niciun.
köken: From the third-person singular possessive form of qeyr (“another”), from Arabic غَيْر (ḡayr). Compare Turkish gayri (Ottoman Turkish غیری (gayri)), Turkmen gaýry, Uzbek gʻayri.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai یوق (ywq /yōq/), from Proto-Common Turkic *yōq, from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“no; is not, there is not”). Cognate with Uyghur يوق / yoq / йоқ (yoq); Turkmen ýōk, Azerbaijani yox, Turkish yok; Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (y¹q̊¹ /yoq/, “no; is not, there is not”); etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch negeen, ne gene, (also as engheen, en geen), from Old Dutch chein, ghein, nehein (“not one; none”), ultimately corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nehw ainaz (“nor one”). Compare German kein, Yiddish קיין (keyn), English none.
aile: geen van alle, geeneens, geenszins, generlei
Finceei, ei mikään, ei mitään, ei yhtään, ei yksikään, ei-ääni /ˈei̯/
The negative verb or negation verb; not, be not, do not, etc.
köken: The indicative forms are from Proto-Finnic *e-, from Proto-Uralic *e- ~ *ä- ~ *a- (negative verb stem). The imperative forms are from Proto-Finnic *älä-, from the Proto-Finno-Ugric negative imperative verb stem *älä- ~ *elä-. Details and cognates Noteworthy forms include eivät (replacing earlier evät by influence from the third-person singular ei). For more forms, see the Proto-Finnic and…
aile: ehkei, ehtyä, ei-, ei lainkaan, ei ollenkaan, eih, eikä, eiköhän, eittämättä, eittää
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne Proto-Slavic *ne Old Czech ne Czech ne Inherited from Old Czech ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne.
köken: Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e /ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g /-ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266. According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen…