Where does “нѣ-” come from?

нѣ- (Old Church Slavonic) comes from Proto-Slavic ne- — ne-, *ně-; some; none.

нѣ- (Old Church Slavonic): some- (with interrogatory pronouns)

Definitions

  1. some- (with interrogatory pronouns)

Ancestry of “нѣ-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicne-ne-, *ně-; some; none
Every word from Proto-Slavic ne-