The German Language

[abaris]

There's another old german word that is closely related to english. "Nit", which means "not". Later on it turned into "nicht", but up until the 17th century, nit was used in official documents. When I was a small child, visiting the One Horse Town where my grandfather was born, there were still old people around using the word. Along with "nimmermehr", which means "nevermore", as everyone having read Poe can remember. As far as I know, both words went out of fashion, somewhere in the last century.