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Where does “nach” come from?

nach (Old Irish) comes from Proto-Celtic nekʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

nach (Old Irish): third-person singular present indicative negative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present indicative negative...

Ancestry of “nach”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celticnekʷe—
2Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →