Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adv
To no extent, in no way. · Not at all, not very. · No, not.
det
Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h).
pron
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryNot any of a given number or group. · No one, nobody. · No person.
From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.) Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
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- Inherited-form mentionnoneenm
- Inherited-form mentionnānang · not one, not any, none
- Inherited-form mention*naingmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*nainazgem-pro · none, nought, nothing
- Word-formation componentneen · not
- Word-formation componentoneen
- Cognate mentionnanesco · none
- Cognate mentionnaanstq
- Cognate mentionneenfy
- Cognate mentionneennl
- Cognate mentionnennds
- Cognate mentionneinde
- Cognate mentionnōnla
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