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Written by Yoïn van Spijk on 2025-01-16 at 19:53

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Interestingly, 'no' (vs. 'yes') isn't related to Spanish 'no'.

English 'no' stems from *naiwan ("never"), as shown in my graphic above.

Spanish 'no' comes from Latin 'nōn', from Old Latin 'noinom' ("not one thing").

This means Spanish 'no' is related to German 'nein', from Proto-Germanic *nainan ("not one thing"), a distant cousin of 'noinom'!

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