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Sardinian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin nēmō (“no one, nobody”), from earlier ne- (“not”) + hemō (“person”). The /-s/ is due to analogy with Old Sardinian alikis (“someone”). Cognate with archaic or dialectal Italian nimo.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nemos
- (Logudorese, Nuorese) no one, nobody
References
- Mendeloff, Henry. 1969. A manual of comparative Romance Linguistics: Phonology and morphology. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press. Page 78.
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “nessuno”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “nèmos”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg