Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ně-

Etymology
Pronoun prefix with indefinite function. Apparently related to forms of, however, uncertainly how:
 * One possibility is a direct descent from, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The logic of this derivation is that originally reflected the meaning none particularly. In support of this hypothesis serves the rare autonomous form 🇨🇬 and analogous formations in Baltic: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Alternatively, according to F. Mikloshich, from the conflation of . Effectively, then would stand for unknowing who/what/where/how/etc. Vasmer considers this derivation phonetically unsound.
 * According to Trubachev, possibly from the conflation of . Similar to the dialectal from 🇨🇬 +.

Almost not used in Modern Polish. Old Polish did preserve, etc. – in Modern Polish rarely used niejako, niejaki, etc. Not used in Ukrainian.

Prefix

 * 1) some- (with interrogatory pronouns)

Descendants

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