EuroHiT/Zero

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Catalan

History of Forms

No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	zero	...	...	Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'
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Croatian

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Czech

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Danish

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	nul	...	...	Lat. nullum 'nothing'
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Dutch

History of Forms

No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	nul	...	general	Lat. nullum 'nothing'	...
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English

History of Forms

No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	zero	since 1604	general	< Fr. < It. < Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness' (cf. type cipher)	OED
2	nil	since 1550	general	< Lat.	OED
3	OE nāwiht, ModE nought/naught (since 1821 also ought with misinterpretation of the n- as part of the indef. art. an)	since OE	general	OE ne + a + wiht, lit. 'not a person'	OED
4	null	since 17th c	mathematicians' jargon	< Lat. nullum 'nothing'	OED
5	o	since 1425	general	< O, the letter	OED
6	cipher	since 1399	the word is now rather used in the sense of 'figure symbol in general'	< Lat. < Arabic ṣifr 'emptiness' (cf. type zero)	OED
7	nullo	1598-1824	typographers' jargon	It.	OED
8	ni(c)hil	.	high register	< Lat. nihil 'nothing'	OED
9	niks, nix	.	low register	< G.coll. nix	OED
10	nit	1902 and 1910	-	< adv. nit 'not, no'	OED
11	theta	only once in 1450	-	< the name of the Greek letter	OED
12	duck's egg	since 19th c.	Cricket jargon	metaphorical use of duck's egg	OED
13	goose-egg	since 19th c	sports jargon	metaphorical use of goose-egg	OED
14	zilch	since 1966	coll.	Mr. Zilch 'nickname for an indefinite person; sb unimportant' (1931) > zilch 'gibberish, meaningless speech' (1960) > 'sth unimportant, nothing important' > 'nothing'	Barnhart
15	zip	since 1900	coll., US	of expressive origin (like pip 'short high-pitched electronic tone', tip 'stroke, hit, noiseless tap'	OED
16	blank	since 19th c	sports jargon	figurative use	OED
17	love	1742	sports jargon	acc. to the etymological dictionaries from the phrase for love 'for fun, for nothing materialistic'; a popular view sees Fr. l'oeuf 'the egg' as the starting-point of 'love'	OED

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Estonian

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Finnish

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	nolla	...	...	Lat. nullum 'nothing', nulla 'no, none'	wiktionary
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French

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	zéro	...	...	It. < Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'
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Frisian

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German

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	null	...	...	Lat. nullum 'nothing'
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Hungarian

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	nulla	...	...	Lat. nulla 'no, none'
2	zéró	...	...	Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'	wiktionary
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Irish

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	nialas	...	...	...	wiktionary
2	náid	...	...	...	wiktionary
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Italian

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	zero	...	...	Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'
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Ladin

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Latvian

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Lithuanian

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Maltese

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Norwegian

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	null	...	...	Lat. nullum 'nothing'
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Occitan

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Polish

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No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	zero	...	...	Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'
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Portuguese

History of Forms

No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	zero	...	...	Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'
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Rumantsch

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Slovak

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Slovenian

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Spanish

History of Forms

No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	cero	...	...	Arab. ṣifr 'emptiness'
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Swedish

History of Forms

No.	Variants of Lexical Type	Chronological Data	Distribution	Origin	Sources
1	noll	...	...	Lat. nullum 'nothing'
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wide distribution of the Arabic term as this was the most extraordinary symbol to the Europeans who adopted the decimal writing system from the Arabs

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