Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryUsed in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed. · Not, the negation of the root word (a quality). · Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity). · Avoiding an action.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- From Middle English non- (“not, lack of, failure to”), from Middle English non (“no, not any; not, not at all”, literally “none”) and Old English nān- (prefix), both from Old English nān (“no, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, zero”), see none. Merged with and reinforced by Middle English non- (“not”), from Old French non- and Medieval Latin nōn (“not”), from Old Latin noinu, noinom, from ne oinom (“not one”).
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- Inherited-form mentionnon-enm · not, lack of, failure to
- Derivation mentionnonenm · no, not any; not, not at all
- Derivation mentionnān-ang
- Derivation mentionnānang · no, not any
- Derivation mention*naingmw-pro
- Derivation mention*nainazgem-pro · none, nought, zero
- Inherited-form mentionnon-enm · not
- Derivation mentionnon-fro
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