Where does “notn” come from?

notn (Jamaican Creole) comes from English nothing, from Middle English nothyng, from Old English nāþing.

notn (Jamaican Creole): nothing

Definitions

  1. nothing

Ancestry of “notn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnothingAPI; Not any thing; no thing; An absence of...
2Middle EnglishnothyngNot any thing; no thing
3Old Englishnāþing—
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