English
NIMPLY
Blend of NOT + IMPLY, by analogy with NOR and NAND.
Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht ‘nothing’
Old English nāwiht ‘nothing’
Old English *nōht ‘nought, nothing’
Middle English nought
Middle English not ‘not’
English NOT
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to plait, to weave’
Latin plicō ‘to fold’
Latin implicare ‘to infold, involve’
Old French emplier
Middle English implien
English IMPLY
Today it means
noun A logic gate that implements material nonimplication.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / NIMPLY