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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nětu
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Clipping of *ne (“not”) + *(j)e (“short form of *estь (“is”)”) + *tu (dat. of *tъ (“that”)) (as per Sobolevskij). Some descendants reflect the acc. formation *nětъ (literally: not so).
Adverb
*nětu
- not, nohow (literally: it is not/there is not)
Alternative forms
- *nětъ
Derived terms
- *nětoli (“neither, in no way”)
Related terms
- *ne (“not”)
- *ne esti/*něsti (“not to be”) (colloquial)
- *ni (“neither, nor”)
- *ni to (“neither, nor so”)
- *niščь (“destitute, negligible”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нѣту (nětu), нѣтъ (nětŭ)
- Old Belarusian: нет (net), нету (netu)
- Belarusian: нет (njet) (dialectal)
- Russian: нет (net); не́ту (nétu) (colloquial); не́тути (nétuti) (dialectal)
- Old Ukrainian: нѣтъ (nět), нетъ (net), нѣт (nět), нет (net)
- Rusyn: нїт (njit)
- Ukrainian: ніт (nit), ніту (nitu)
- Old Belarusian: нет (net), нету (netu)
- Old Novgorodian: нѣту (nětu), нѣту ть (nětu tĭ), нѣтъ (nětŭ), нѣть (nětĭ)
- Old East Slavic: нѣту (nětu), нѣтъ (nětŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: не́то (néto), не́ту (nétu) (dialectal)
- West Slavic:
- Old Polish: nietu
- Polish: niet
- Slovak: niet
- Old Polish: nietu
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нет”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*ne (j)e tu/*nětu”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 94
- Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “нето¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 626