Nothing
/ˈnʌθɪŋ/noun
Not anything; no thing.
Did you know?The word comes from Old English *nā þīng*, meaning “not a thing,” and it became one of English’s cleanest ways to turn absence into a noun.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*tenk-
“to stretch, stretch out, or form”
Old English
OE
nā þīng
“not a thing”
Middle English
Middle English
nothynge
“not any thing; no thing”
Modern English
English
nothing
“not anything”