Where does “nowt” come from?

nowt (Scots) comes from Old English nāwiht, from Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht — nothing.

nowt (Scots): naught, nothing

Definitions

  1. naught, nothing

Ancestry of “nowt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishnāwihtnothing, naught
2Proto-West Germanic*naiwwihtnothing

Words derived from “nowt”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht →