From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹, Latin ne, Sanskrit न, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не, Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.
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