Where does “negar” come from?
negar (Asturian) comes from Latin negō, from Latin nec, from Latin neque, from Proto-Indo-European nekʷe, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.
negar (Asturian): to deny; to refuse
Ancestry of “negar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | negō | — |
| 2 | Latin | nec | nor; and not, not; neither |
| 3 | Latin | neque | not; and not, also not |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | nekʷe | and not, neither, nor |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |