Where does “ninguim” come from?

ninguim (Macanese) comes from Portuguese ninguém, from Latin nec, from Latin neque, from Proto-Indo-European nekʷe, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.

ninguim (Macanese): no one, nobody not one person

Definitions

  1. no one, nobody not one person

Ancestry of “ninguim”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseninguémno one; nobody; nobody
2Latinnecnor; and not, not; neither
3Latinnequenot; and not, also not
4Proto-Indo-Europeannekʷeand not, neither, nor
5Proto-Indo-Europeannenot
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne →Every word from Proto-Indo-European nekʷe →Every word from Latin neque →