Mersi is a loanword from French[1], it's also used in the adjacent country of Armenia. The Proto-Indo-European root for "no" is *ne, so many (most?) IE languag

Mersi is a loanword from French[1], it's also used in the adjacent country of Armenia. The Proto-Indo-European root for "no" is *ne, so many (most?) IE languages feature this. e.g. no, non, nyet, nein, ne, na, ni, etc. There are languages from India to Ireland that have this sort of negation. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_loanwords_in_Persian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_loanwords_in_Pe... [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ne https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/...