Define:Ni

Abinomn

Pronoon

Ni

1. ye (seengular)

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Albanie

Etymology

Frae Proto-Albanian *nū, frae Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognate tae Sanskrit नू (nū, “now”). Eften occurs in coordination wi ither pairticles, compare tani, nani, nime.

Adverb

Ni

1. nou

Alternative forms

• tani
• nani
• nime

Related terms

• nu

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Asturian

Noun

Ni f (uncoontable)

1. nu (name for the letter o the Greek alphabet: Ν an ν)

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Basque

Pronoon

Ni

1. Ah (first-person seengular personal pronoon)
   • 1989, Gorka Aulestia, Basque-English Dictionary, William A. Douglas, page 53

     Ni errege izan nintzen.

     I was king.

   • 2013, Patricio Urquizu Sarasua, Gramática de la lengua vasca, Universidad Nacional de Educación de Distancia, page 154

     Ni etorri naiz.

     I have come.

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Biloxi

Noun

Ni

1. Synonym o ani (“watter”)

References

• David Kaufman, Tanêks-Tąyosą Kadakathi: Biloxi-English Dictionary (University of Kansas, 2011, ISBN 978-1-936153-08-4, page 34

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Breton

Etymology 1

Frae Proto-Brythonic *ni, frae Proto-Celtic *snīs.

Pronoon

Ni

1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

Frae Proto-Brythonic *nei, frae Proto-Celtic *neɸūss, frae Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

Noun

Ni m (plural nied)

1. neffae

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈni/
• Rhymes: -ca, -i

Etymology 1

Conjunction

Ni

1. naither, nor

Etymology 2

Noun

1. Nu; the Greek letter Ν (lawercase ν).

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Dens

Dens cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : Ni     Ordinal : niende

Etymology

Frae Auld Norse níu, frae Proto-Germanic *newun, frae Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”).

Pronunciation

• da

Numeral

Ni

1. Template:Cln nine

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Dumbea

Pronunciation

• duf

Pronoun

Ni

1. thay

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Citit in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990), Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-CalédonieCS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link). Citit in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Eastren Huasteca Nahuatl

Determiner

Ni

1. this.

Pronoon

Ni

1. this.

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Esperanto

Etymology

Frae Italian noi, French nous, Spainish nos, Laitin nos, plus the i o personal pronoons.

Pronunciation

• eo

Pronoon

Ni (first-person plural, accusative nin, possessive nia)

1. we (first-person plural personal pronoon)

   Ni batis lin.

   We hit him.

2. oorsels

   Ni diris al ni.

   We said tae oorsels.

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French

Etymology

Frae Middle French ny, frae Auld French ne, frae Laitin nec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni/

Conjunction

Ni

1. naither; nor

Uissage notes

• Chiefly uised at least twace in the same sentence the same wey naither an nor wad be used in a Scots sentence, sic as ni riche, ni pauvre (“naither rich nor puir”).

See also

• soit

Further reading

• “Ni” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Gothic

Romanization

Ni

1. Romanisation o 𐌽𐌹

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Hausa

Pronoun

nī

1. Ah (1st person seengular pronoon)

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Hungarian

Etymology

Native development wi a debatit oreegin:

1. Shortened frae nézd (“look!”) ~ nízd (a dialectal variant).
2. An onomatopoeia expressin astonishment.

Pronunciation

• [ˈni]
• Hyphenation: ni

Interjection

Ni

1. (colloquial) lo!, leuk!

   Itt van ni! ― Leuk! Here it is!

Uisage notes

Maist o the time it is uised in its duplicatit form: nini!

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Idi

Noon

Ni

1. watter

References

• Idi Organised Phonology Data

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Ido

Pronoon

Ni

1. (personal) we (first-person plural personal pronoon)

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Ingrian

Pronoun

Ni

1. sae

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Interlingua

Alternative forms

• nec

Etymology

Frae French an Spainish ni, frae Laitin nec (“and not”).

Adverb

Ni

1. an nae.

   Io non sape, ni vole saper ― Ah dinna ken, an Ah dinna want tae ken

2. Naither, nor.

   Illo ni me place ni displace ― It naither pleases me nor displeases me

3. An, or (follaein a "wi na" or "withoot").

   Nos debe resister sin aqua ni alimento ― We maun resist wi na watter or fuid

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -it, -i

Etymology 1

Blend of no +‎ si

Adverb

Ni

1. (informal) Naither aye nor na.

Etymology 2

Noon

Ni m, f (invariable)

1. nu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• in

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Japanese

Romanization

Ni

1. See に
2. See ニ

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Kamano

Alternative forms

• nina

Noun

Ni

1. watter

References

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, ISBN 0521286212

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Kansa

Noun

Ni

1. watter
2. ony liquid
3. river

References

• Kansa dictionary
• Quapaw dictionary, in notes: "ni (ni) - water, river, liquid (Kanza)"

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Kedah Malay

Pronunciation

• meo

Pronoun

Ni

1. ye (singular)

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Klao

Noun

Ni

1. watter

References

• World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002, ISBN 0521005973

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Laitin

Alternative forms

• nei [(Qin auld orthografie)]

Etymology

Frae Old Latin nei, frae Proto-Indo-European *néy (“not”), frae *ne. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹 (nei), Lithuanian nei, Auld Kirk Slavonic ни (ni) an Old Irish ní. See an aw nē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niː/

Adverb

nī (not comparable)

1. nae, gin...nae, unless- an absolutely negative pairticle lik ne so anerly in combinations

Derived terms

• quid nī? (why nae?)
• nīmīrum (nae wunnerfu)
• nisi

Conjunction

nī

1. nae, that nae, unless; lik ne in imperative an intentional clauses

   Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas.

   Vinum aliudve quid ni laudato.

   Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent.

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Ligurian

Etymology

Frae Laitin nec.

Pronunciation

• lij

Conjunction

Ni

1. nor
2. naither...nor
3. aither...or

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Livonian

Etymology

Akin tae Finnish nyt.

Adverb

Ni

1. nou

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

Frae Middle High German nie, frae Old High German nio. Cognate wi German nie.

Pronunciation

• lb

Adverb

Ni

1. niver

Synonyms

• (never): nimools, keemol, keemools

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Malay

Alternative forms

• ini
• اين
• ني

Etymology

Shortened form o ini, frae Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), frae Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, frae Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

Pronunciation

• ms
• Rhymes: -ms, -ni, -i

Determiner

Ni

1. this (the (thing) here)
2. this (known (thing) just mentioned)
3. this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
4. this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

Pronoon

Ni

1. this (The thing, item, etc. bein indicatit)

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Mandarin

Romanization

Ni

1. Nonstaundart spellin o nī.
2. Nonstaundart spellin o ní.
3. Nonstaundart spellin o nǐ.
4. Nonstaundart spellin o nì.

Usage notes

• Template:Cmn-toneless-note

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Marshallese

Etymology

Frae .

Pronunciation

• MED phonemes: {niy}
• /nʲɨj/
• (MED) [nʲi]
• (Choi) [nʲi]

Noon

Ni

1. cocaenit

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Navajo

Pronoon

Ni

1. seicont person seengular pronoon ye
   • Shí dóó ni ayóo ałk’is niidlį́.

     Ye an Ah are really guid friends.

2. seicont person singular possessive pronoon yers
   • Díí naaltsoos éí ni.

     This beuk is yers.

Uissage notes

The verb in Navajo incorporates information aboot person, an miny sentences mey sicweys nae hae explicit independent pronoons. For instance:

• Hooghandi naniná.
• Ni éí hooghandi naniná.

Baith sentences are grammatically complete, an mean essentially the same thing: ye are at hame. The verb naniná is in the seicont-person form, so the pronoon can be safely omittit, as in the first sentence. This is seemilar tao pronoon drappin in other leids whaur the verb specifees person, sic as Spaingie. Meanwhile, the expleecit uise o ni in the seicont sentence emphasizes that the speaker is talkin aboot ye. This can be thocht o as aboot equivalent tae the uise o emphasis in Scots: while the first sentence comes athort as ye're at hame, the seicont ane is mair lik ye, ye're at hame.

See an aw

Navajo personal pronoons

	seengular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shí	nihí	danihí
2nt person	ni	nihí	danihí
3rd person	bí	bí	daabí
4t person (3a)	hó	hó	daahó

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Ningil

Noon

Ni

1. watter

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 : /niː/
• Margaret Manning, Naomi Saggers, A Tentative Phonemic Analysis of Ningil (SIL), in Phonologies of five Austronesian languages (Richard Loving, John M. Clifton; 1975) : /ni/

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Norse Bokmål

Norse cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : Ni     Ordinal : niende

Etymology

Frae Auld Norse níu (whance an aw Dens ni, Icelandic níu, Faroese níggju an Swadish nio) frae Proto-Germanic *newun, frae Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognate wi Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun); Old English niġon (Inglis nine); Old Frisian nigun (Wast Frisian njoggen); Old High German niun (German neun).

Pronunciation

• no

Numeral

Ni

1. Template:Cln nine

Derived terms

• førtini
• nittini

Related terms

• niende

References

• “Ni” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norse Nynorsk

Etymology

Frae Auld Norse níu

Numeral

Ni

1. Template:Cln nine

Derived terms

• førtini
• nittini

References

• “Ni” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Conjunction

nek ... ni

1. naither ... nor

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Nutabe

Noun

Ni

1. watter

References

• Paul Rivet, Nouvelle contribution à l’étude de l’ethnologie précolombienne de Colombie, Journal de la Société des Américanistes volume 35, pages 25–39 (1943), page 26

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Auld Heich German

Alternative forms

• ne

Pronunciation

• goh

Particle

Ni

1. nae

Descendants

• Template:Desc
  • Template:Desc [(Qdialectal)]

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Auld Erse

Particle

Ni

1. Alternative spelling of ní

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Omaha-Ponca

Noun

Ni

1. watter

References

• Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ‎Francis La Flesche, The Omaha Tribe (1970), page 166

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Pols

Conjunction

Ni

1. (archaic) Alternative form of ani.

Derived terms

• ni pies, ni wydra
• ni tak, ni siak
• ni to, ni sio

Pairticle

Ni

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of nie.

Further reading

• Ni in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Ni in Pols dictionars at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borraed frae Template:Bor.

Noon

Ni f (plural Nis)

1. nu (the thirteenth letter o the Greek alphabet).

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Romanian

Pronoon

Ni

1. Alternative form of ne (dative o noi): tae us

Usage notes

This form is uused whan ne (thatis dative) is combined wi the follain accusatives:

• îl (the accusative o el, contractit as ni-l)
• îi (the accusative o ei, contractit as ni-i)
• le (the accusative o ele)
• se (the reflexive accusative o aw third-person pronouns)

See an aw

• li
• vi

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Samoan

Article

Ni

1. some (plural indefinite airticle)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Frae Proto-Slavic *ni (“nor, not”), frae Proto-Balto-Slavic *nej, frae Proto-Indo-European *ney. Compare ni-, ne.

Pairticle

Ni (Cyrillic spelling Ни)

1. (emphasizes negation) even, aither

   ni ja to ne znam — even Ah dinna know that; Ah dinna ken that aither

   nisam hteo/htio ni da čujem za pr(ij)edlog — Ah didna even want tae listen aboot the proponal

Conjunction

Ni (Cyrillic spelling Ни)

1. (shortening of niti) naither, nor

   ona nije ni pametna ni(ti) marljiva — she is naither smairt nor industrious

   ni traga ni glasa o .. — nae a trace aboot ..

   ni kriv ni dužan — completely innocent (leet. naither guilty nor indebtit)

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

• nni

Pronunciation

• scn
• (unstressed) scn

Pronoun

Ni

1. us, accusative o nuàutri
2. us, dative o nuàutri
3. us, reflexive o nuàutri

Inflection

nominative	nuàutri
prepositional	nuàutri
accusative	ni
dative	ni
reflexive	ni
possessive	nostru

See an aw

• nuàutri
• vi

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Spaingie

Pronunciation

• /ni/
• Rhymes: -es, -i

Etymology 1

Frae Laitin nec.

Conjunction

Ni

1. (coordinating) naither... nor

   Ni Juan, ni Pedro ni Felipe te darán la razón.

   Naither John, nor Peter, nor Phillip will gie ye the raison.

2. nor, or

   No descansa de día ni de noche.

   He disna rest at day or at nicht.

Derived terms

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• ni chicha ni limonada
• ni come, ni deja comer
• ni fu ni fa
• ni ir ni venir
• ni lerdo ni perezoso
• ni tanto ni tan calvo

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Adverb

Ni

1. nae even, even

   No descansaba ni por un minuto

   Ah didna rest even for a meenit.

Antonyms

• o ... o

Derived terms

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• ni a dos tirones
• ni a la de tres
• ni a tiros
• ni a tres tirones
• ni bien
• ni en sueños
• ni harto de vino
• ni por asomo

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Derived terms

• ni que
• nini

Etymology 2

Noon

Ni f (plural níes)

1. nu; the Greek letter Ν, ν

Synonyms

• ny

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Swahili

Verb

Ni

1. is

Uissage notes

This lemma is the anerly Swahili verb that is niver inflectit—for the inflectit form o Scots tae be, see -wa.

Prefix

Ni

1. Template:N-g

   wananipenda

   Thay like me

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Swadish

Etymology

Syne 1661, throu contraction o the Auld Swadish verb suffix -(e)n ("yon") an the aulder pronoon I ("ye"), e.g. vissten i > visste ni (“did ye ken”). Compare Icelandic þér an þið that developed similarly. The Old Swedish ī, ir derive frae Auld Norse ír, variant o ér, þér, frae Proto-Germanic *jūz, frae Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronunciation

• sv
• Rhymes: -sv, -iː

Pronoon

Ni

1. ye (plural nominative)
2. ye (seicont-person seengular nominative formal) (caipitalised Ni, rare in modren use)

Declension

Swadish personal pronouns

	subject	object	posessive
singular	full	full	common	neuter	plural
1st person	jag	mig	min	mitt	mina
2nt person	du	dig	din	ditt	dina
3rd person masculine	han	honom	hans
3rd person feminine	hon	henne	hennes
3rd person common	den	den	dess
3rd person neuter	det	det	dess
3rd person indefinite	man	en	ens
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina
plural
1st person	vi	oss	vår	vårt	våra
2nt person	ni	er	er	ert	era
3rd person	de	dem	deras
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• tl

Preposeetion

Ni

1. O; possessive pairticle. Uised anerly wi personal names.

   bisikleta ni Juan ― Juan's bicycle

2. Objective merker for personal names—objective form o si; functional equivalent o ng.

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Unami

Pronunciation

• unm

Pronoon

Ni

1. Ah

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Ura (Vanuatu)

Pronunciation

• uur

Noon

Ni

1. tree

Faur readin

• Terry Crowley, Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu (1999)

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Uzbek

Pairticle

Ni (Cyrillic ни)

1. accusative case merker. It is placed efter the direct object o a transitive verb.

   Men O'zbek tilini o'rganyapman.

   Ah am studyin Uzbek.

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Veps

Etymology

Borrowed frae Template:Bor.

Determiner

Ni

1. nae, nae a, na

Inflection

Nae inflected.

Conjunction

ni ... ni

1. naither ... nor

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “ни”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Vietnamese

Etymology

See này. This is ane o mony cases in that monophthongs war nae diphthongized in Central Vietnamese, compare mày vs. mi, chấy vs. chí, nước vs. nác.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ni˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [nɪj˧˧]

Determiner

Ni

1. (dialectal, central Vietnam) this

Adverb

Ni

1. (dialectal, central Vietnam) here

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• cy

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *ni, from Proto-Celtic *snīs.

Pronoon

Ni

1. us; we

Uissage notes

In Sooth Wales, the pronoon ni can be uised bi itsel colloquially whaur the affirmative first-person plural present tense o the verb ‘tae be’ (ŷn) wad be expectit, e.g. Ni’n mynd i edrych o gwmpas yr amgueddfa. (“We’re gaein tae leuk aroond the museum.”) insteid o Ŷn ni’n mynd....

Etymology 2

Frae Proto-Celtic *nīs, frae Proto-Indo-European *ne h₁ésti (“is nae”).

Adverb

Ni

1. nae

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Yil

Noun

Ni

1. watter

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 : /niː/
• A Tentative Phonemic Statement in Yil in West Sepik Province, in Phonologies of five Austronesian languages (Richard Loving, John M. Clifton; 1975) : /ni/

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Zou

Noun

Ni

1. sun

Numeral

Ni

1. twa

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

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Zulu

Etymology 1

Adjective

-Ni^?

1. whit (kynd o)

Inflection

Enumerative concord, tone class H
	Modifier
Class 1	muNi
Class 2	baNi
Class 3	muNi
Class 4	miNi
Class 5	liNi
Class 6	maNi
Class 7	siNi
Class 8	ziNi
Class 9	yiNi
Class 10	ziNi
Class 11	luNi
Class 14	buNi
Class 15	kuNi
Class 17	kuNi

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Pronoun

-Ni

1. Combinin stem o nina.

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-ni”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ISBN 0 85494 027 8: “-ni”