ABSTRACT
See NATIVE. para 8--and beading. naufragous. See the element nau-. naught is a Vat of nlJU8bt: ME 1IOfIKht. naUChl,
earlier 1UJht, nawlht: OE n4JJt, ""1It, contrr of n4wiht, ""willt: lie, not+l2', ever+wiht, thing: lit, therefore, Dot ever a thing, nothing. Hence the adj naught)', worthless (000), hence wicked (obsol). hence merely misbehaving, mischievous, cf the obs (except in Sc) nought)'. worthless, bad; whence nauchtlneu.
