Where does “notin” come from?

notin (Nigerian Pidgin) comes from English nothing, from Middle English nothyng, from Old English nāþing.

notin (Nigerian Pidgin): nothing

Definitions

  1. nothing

Ancestry of “notin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnothingAPI; Not any thing; no thing; An absence of...
2Middle EnglishnothyngNot any thing; no thing
3Old Englishnāþing—
Every word from Old English nāþing →
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