"not" in sette lingue
Significatonot
Spagnolo
/no/
ereditaria
The same word as the answer 'no': no sé.
Francese
/nə pa/
ereditaria
Ne is NŌN worn down; pas is Latin PASSUM 'a step'. Speech usually drops ne: je sais pas.
Italiano
/non/
ereditaria
The answer is no; the negation before a verb is non.
Portoghese
/nɐ̃w/
ereditaria
Also the answer 'no'; speech often repeats it at the end: não sei, não.
Rumeno
/nu/
ereditaria
Catalano
/nɔ/
ereditaria
Pas can reinforce it, as in French: no ho sé pas.
Inglese
/nɑt/
inglese nativa · Old English nāwiht 'no thing' (nought)
Like French pas, English not began as an emphatic 'not a whit'.
L’antenato latino
NŌN‘not’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
NŌN survives in every sister, but French wore it down to ne and propped it up with pas 'a step' (je ne marche pas, 'I don't walk a step'), until pas did the real work. Italian and French keep 'not' apart from the answer 'no'; Spanish uses no for both.
Imparala
In una frase
- esNo lo sé.
- frJe ne sais pas.
- itNon lo so.
- ptNão sei.
- roNu știu.
- caNo ho sé.
- enI don't know.
Altre parole dallo stesso etimo latino
Altro in "Parole piccole"
- neither … norni … nini … niné … nénem … nemnici … nicini … ni
- no, not anyningúnaucunnessunonenhumniciuncap
- some, a fewalgunosquelquesalcunialgunscâțivaalguns
- bothlos dostous les deuxtutti e dueos doisamândoitots dos
- any (no matter which)cualquiern'importe quelqualsiasiqualqueroricequalsevol
- samemismomêmestessomesmoacelașimateix