Nix
/nɪks/noun
A colloquial word meaning to reject, cancel, or forbid something.
Did you know?In English, the word is a borrowing from German nix, which itself comes from a long Germanic line meaning “nothing,” not from the water-spirit nixie.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ne
“not”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*ne
“not, no”
Old High German
OHG
niwiht / niht
“nothing, not a thing”
Middle High German
MHG
nīht
“nothing”
German
German
nichts
“nothing”
19th Century
English
nix
“to cancel, reject, or forbid”