Talk:nolla

Native zero

Did Latin (deprecated template usage) nullus displace a native Uralic term for zero? Jackwolfroven (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

It would appear so. In this situation, I would suspect it was borrowed from Swedish. The concept of zero was likely not clear to monolingual peasants, so it could be borrowed rapidly. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 21:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC)