Ought

Morpheme

Ought

Type

free base

Denotation

something, anything

Etymology

variant of aught; Middle English aught, ought; Old English āht, āwiht, from ā + wiht

Evidence

dreadnought, nought, ought

Notes

homophone of Aught
<n- + Ought> denotes “zero, nothing” and literally means “not anything”

See Also

Aught, Whit, Wight

Homographs

Ought, Ought