niets
Meaning
nothing
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/nits/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch niets, from Old Dutch niewihts, niewehts, partitive genitive of niewiht (whence modern niet). Cognate with German nichts. By surface analysis, n- + iets or niet + -s.
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