no
Meaning
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- Not any.
- Hardly any.
- Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
- Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/nəʉ/
Etymology
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. 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.
Cognate with Dutch
neen
Cognate with Dutch
geen
Cognate with Western Frisian
gjin
Cognate with German
kein
Cognate with Dutch
nee
Cognate with German
nie
Cognate with German
nö
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