nadie

Etymology
,, inherited from , perfect past participle of , ultimately derived from.

The semantic change is due to commonly being used with negated verbs in spoken Ibero-Romance, supposing for example *, cognate with 🇨🇬. Compare the development of from “person” to “no one”. Old Spanish commonly also used the phrase. also originates from the same root, from ; see Jespersen's Cycle. The final unstressed vowel was influenced by / and (today ) towards the very end of the Old Spanish period: Coromines and Pascual report the earliest attestation of the -ie form is in Nebrija.

Pronoun

 * 1) no one, nobody; anyone, anybody