Etymology

nish

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Today it means: Nothing. Full definition →

German nichts ← Yiddish נישט
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The story

  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromנישט“no, not”
  2. German · borrowed fromnichts“nothing”
  3. English todaynish

Borrowed from Polari, originally from German nichts (“nothing”) or Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”).

Words from the same roots

Germannichts all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.