nowt · pronoun, noun, adverb1
Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).
nowt · noun2
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*nautą
- Old Norse · derived fromnaut
- Middle English · inherited fromnowte
- English todaynowt
From Middle English nowte, noute, nawte, naute, borrowed from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with Old English nēat, English neat.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*nautą all →
neat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.