Re: Origin of "rien" and "res"?

li [Adam F.] mi tulis la

> Does anyone know the origins of two words "rien" and "res".
> They are both
> the words for "nothing" the first is French and the second
> Catalan. I wonder
> if they are cognates, but I can't find anything about it
> online. This is for
> a conlang project so I thought maybe someone would know.
I don't know about "rien", but "res" looks like it comes from Latin
"res" (=affair, matter, business, etc.).