non-

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 452 words | Copyright

non- prefix expressing negation, used with sbs., adjs., vbs. (ppl. adjs., gerunds), and advs.; first in the AN. form noun = OF. non-, nom-, nun-, num- :- L. nōn ‘not’ used as a prefix. The earliest exx. are non-power, non-residence, nonsuit (XIV); similar comps. of a technical kind prevail until XVII, when the application was widened. The prefix is normally unstressed, but cf. nonage, nonchalance, nondescript, nonsense, nonsuit.

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