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- aught (n.1)



[aught 词源字典] - "something," Old English awiht "aught, anything, something," literally "e'er a whit," from Proto-Germanic *aiwi "ever" (from PIE *aiw- "vital force, life, long life, eternity;" see eon) + *wihti "thing, anything whatever" (see wight). In Shakespeare, Milton and Pope, aught and ought occur indiscriminately.[aught etymology, aught origin, 英语词源]
- aught (n.2)




- "nothing, zero," faulty separation of a naught (see naught; see adder for the separation problem).