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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | ne |
| DEFINITION: | Not.
Derivatives include naughty, never, nothing, annul, nice, annihilate, negligee, deny, and renegade.
1a. naught, naughty, neither, never, nill, no1, no2, none, nor1, not, nothing, from Old English ne, not, and n , no; b. nay, from Old Norse ne, not; c. nix2, from Old High German ne, ni, not. a–c all from Germanic *ne-, *na-. 2. annul, nefarious, nescience, neuter, nice, null, nullify, nullipara, from Latin ne-, not, and n llus, none (ne- + llus, any; see oi-no-). 3. nimiety, from Latin nimis, too much, excessively, very (< *ne-mi-s, “not little”; *mi-, little; see mei-2). 4. nihilism, nihility, nil; annihilate, from Latin nihil, n l, nothing, contracted from nihilum, nothing (< *ne-hlum, “not a whit, nothing at all”; hlum, a thing, trifle; origin unknown). 5. non-; nonplus, nonsuit, from Latin n n, not (< *ne-oinom, not one thing”; *oino-, one; see oi-no-). 6. nisi, from Latin nisi, unless (n, not, from *nei + s, if; see swo-). 7a. neglect, negligee, negotiate, from Latin prefix neg-, not; b. negate; abnegate, deny, renegade, renege, from Latin negre, to deny. Both a and b from Italic *nek, not. 8. nepenthe, from Greek n -, not. 9. Zero-grade combining form * -. a. (i) un-1, from Old English un-, not; (ii) Zugunruhe, from Old High German un-, not. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *un-; b. in-1, from Latin in-, not; c. a-1, an-, from Greek a-, an-, not; d. ahimsa, from Sanskrit a-, an-, not; e. compound *-m -to- (see mer-). (Pokorny 1. n 756.) |
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