nemos

Sardinian

Alternative forms

nemus (Campidanese)

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

IPA^(key): /ˈnemos/, [ˈnɛː.mɔ.zɔ̆]

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