Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Not any. · Hardly any. · Not any possibility or allowance of (something). · Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
Inherited from Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (“none, not any”) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (“none, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“not any”, literally “not one”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + a. Piecewise doublet of none. Cognate with Scots nae (“no, not any, none”), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), North Frisian nian (“no, not any, none”)), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (“no”)), Old Norse neinn (“no, not any, none”). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionnoenm
- Inherited-form mentionnānang · none, not any
- Inherited-form mention*naingmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*nainazgem-pro · not any
- Compound componentneen · not
- Compound componentaen
- Cognate mentionnaesco · no, not any, none
- Cognate mentionnānofs
- Cognate mentionnaanstq
- Cognate mentionnianfrr · no, not any, none
- Cognate mentionnēnodt
- Cognate mentionneennl
- Cognate mentionneinnnon
- Cognate mentionnigēnosx
- Cognate mentionnennds
- Cognate mentionnehēnodt
- Cognate mentionnegheendum
- Cognate mentiongeennl
- Cognate mentiongjinfy
- Cognate mentionniheingoh
- Cognate mentionkeinde
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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