Where does “ni” come from?
ni (Tagalog) comes from Spanish ni, from Old Spanish nin, from Latin nec, from Latin neque, from Proto-Indo-European nekʷe, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.
ni (Tagalog): Of; possessive particle. Used only with personal...
Definitions
- Of; possessive particle. Used only with personal...
Ancestry of “ni”, step by step
ni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish ni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | ni | neither... nor; nor, or; not even, even |
| 2 | Old Spanish | nin | — |
| 3 | Latin | nec | nor; and not, not; neither |
| 4 | Latin | neque | not; and not, also not |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | nekʷe | and not, neither, nor |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |
via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ni | genitive case marker for singular personal names and pronouns; marker of possession, part-to-whole relationships, and agency of a non-actor voice verb |