nawiht

Etymology
From. Originally equivalent to or.

Pronoun

 * 1) nothing
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- Nys nāht ofor hyne...


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Nāwiht ne biþ yfel ǣr man wēne þæt hit yfel sīe.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Sēo leofaþ nū þē, þē ānum, for þon þe hēo nāwiht elles ne lufaþ būtan þē.


 * 1) none
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.

Usage notes
This word has a lot of variant forms:


 * Contractions such as nāwht and nāht are very common, especially in adverbial use.


 * Another frequent form, nān wiht, is a phrase made up of separate words; accordingly, both nān and wiht are inflected. Note that while the compound nāwiht is always neuter, is often feminine as a standalone word, a feature that goes back to Proto-Germanic times: God ne ēht nānre wihte for þȳ hine nān wiht ne mæġ flēon ("God chases nothing [gen. sg. fem.] because nothing can run from him").

Nāwiht (like with āwiht) typically takes a genitive to indicate the quality of the thing being referred to, not an adjective: nāwiht weorðes ("nothing of worth/value"), nāwiht elles ("nothing else").

Adverb

 * 1) not (used to negate adjectives, especially in phrases like "not long ago" and "not far from")
 * 2) * Life of St. Guthlac
 * "ang"

- Is on Bretenne lande sum fenn unmǣtre miċelnesse þe onġinþ fram Grantan ēa, nāht feorr fram þǣre ċeastre þȳ ilcan naman, is nemned Grante ċeaster.


 * 1) used with  for emphasis; not at all (often left untranslated)
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Ne ondrǣde iċ heora mē nū nāwht.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Ne mæġ iċ þē nāwht helan þæs þe iċ wāt.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Swithhun, Bishop"
 * "ang"

- ...he næfre ær naht cweðan ne mihte...