{"id":12116,"date":"2016-02-25T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12116"},"modified":"2016-02-25T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:10:49","slug":"nix-and-natch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12116","title":{"rendered":"Nix and Natch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The words <strong>nix<\/strong> and <strong>natch<\/strong> have come up quite a bit in things I&#8217;ve read and\/or heard recently, so I thought I&#8217;d look into their meanings and origins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nix<\/strong> as a verb means &#8220;to \u200bstop, \u200bprevent, or \u200brefuse to \u200baccept something&#8221; and as a noun it means &#8220;nothing or no&#8221;. These usages are apparently mainly informal and used in the US [<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/nix\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Accroding to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=nix\">Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a>, nix comes from the German <em>nix<\/em>, a dialectal variant of <em>nichts<\/em> (nothing), from the Middle High German <em>nihtes<\/em>, from the genitive of <em>niht\/nit<\/em> (nothing) from the Old High German <em>niwiht<\/em>, from <em>ni\/ne<\/em> (no) and <em>wiht<\/em> (thing, creature).<\/p>\n<p>I rarely come across this word in British English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natch<\/strong> is an abbreviation of naturally, natch &#8211; I didn&#8217;t realise this until I looked it up. I thought it was some kind of negative, but wasn&#8217;t sure what it meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words nix and natch have come up quite a bit in things I&#8217;ve read and\/or heard recently, so I thought I&#8217;d look into their meanings and origins. Nix as a verb means &#8220;to \u200bstop, \u200bprevent, or \u200brefuse to \u200baccept something&#8221; and as a noun it means &#8220;nothing or no&#8221;. These usages are apparently mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}