nothing
‘absence of being, insignificance’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. non ðing, noþynge, no thynk, nothynge < O.E. naþing, naðinc < nan ‘not one’ (< M.E. non, none < O.E. nan ‘not one, not any, no person; not the least part’ < ne ‘not’+ an ‘one’) + þing ‘thing’ < nuh < ne- < Tamil al