Where does “ninguém” come from?

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

ninguém (Portuguese): no one; nobody; nobody

Definitions

  1. no one; nobody; nobody

Ancestry of “ninguém”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnecnor; and not, not; neither
2Latinnequenot; and not, also not
3Proto-Indo-Europeannekʷeand not, neither, nor
4Proto-Indo-Europeannenot

Words derived from “ninguém”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne →Every word from Proto-Indo-European nekʷe →Every word from Latin neque →