Where does “unothi” come from?

unothi (Xhosa) comes from English naught, from Middle English naught, from Old English nāwiht, from Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht — nothing.

unothi (Xhosa): naught

Definitions

  1. naught

Ancestry of “unothi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnaughtNothing; Nothingness; Alternative spelling of...
2Middle EnglishnaughtAlternative form of nought
3Old Englishnāwihtnothing, naught
4Proto-West Germanic*naiwwihtnothing
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