The story
- Old English · inherited fromnawiht
- Middle English · inherited fromnaught
- English todaynaught
From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.