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English

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 This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with theIPA orenPR then please add some!

Noun

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ni

  1. (grammar)Initialism ofnouninanimate.

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Abinomn

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Pronoun

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ni

  1. you(singular)

Afar

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Determiner

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ní

  1. our
    • Saytun Qhuraan kee kay maqnah tarjamaty Qafar afal tani [The clear Qur'an and its explanation translated into the Afar language]‎[2], Suurat Al-Faatica, verse 5:
      Diggah nanuNi Rabbow koo inkittosnaah Qibaada dibuk koo caglisna, nanuni-caagiidah inkih cato koo esserra.
      Our God, with strength we make you whole, only you we give [our] adoration, we as one ask you for help withour afairs.

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Afar possessive determiners
1st person2nd person3rd person
mf
personalsingularyikukaytet
pluralnisinken
reflexivesingularinníisí
pluralninníisinní,sinní

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ni”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Ainu

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ni (Kana spellingニ)

  1. tree
  2. wood

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Albanian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Albanian*nū, fromProto-Indo-European*nū(“now”). Cognate toSanskritनू(nū,“now”).[1] Often occurs in coordination with other particles, comparetani,nani,nime.

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ni

  1. now
    Synonyms:tash,tani,hë,nani,nime

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  1. ^Orel, Vladimir E. (2000)A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page206

Anguthimri

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ni

  1. (Mpakwithi)place
  2. (Mpakwithi)camp

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  • Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Aromanian

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Etymology

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FromVulgar Latinnīs, fromLatinnos. CompareRomanianne (older formnă).

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ni (unstressed accusative and reflexive form ofnoi)

  1. (direct object, first-person plural)us

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  • noi (stressed accusative)

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ni (unstressed dative and reflexive form ofnoi)

  1. (indirect object, first-person plural) (to)us

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  • nau (stressed dative)

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Asturian

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Noun

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ni f (uncountable)

  1. nu(name for the letter of the Greek alphabet: Ν and ν)

Atong (India)

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Etymology

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FromProto-Bodo-Garo*nɯi⁴(“two”), fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*g/s-ni-s(“two”). Cognate withS'gaw Karenခံ(khee),Tibetanགཉིས(gnyis),Sikkimeseཉི(nyi),Nuosuꑍ(nyip),Burmeseနှစ်(hnac).

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ni (Bengali scriptনি)

  1. two

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Bambara

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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ni

  1. soul,life,spirit

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ni

  1. if
    Ni taara sugu la, i bɛ neba ye.
    If you go to the market, you will see my mother
  2. when

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Basque

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Etymology

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FromProto-Basque*ni.

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ni (emphatic formsneu,nihaur,nerau)

  1. First-person singular personal pronoun;I
    • c.1808, Juan Bautista Aguirre,Eracusaldiac [Lessons]‎[4], Tolosa, published1850, page473:
      […] Jauna: ez naizni beñere izan zu neure viotzean artzeco diña[…]
      [[…] Jauna, ez naizni beñere izan zu nere biotzean artzeko diña[…]]
      […] Lord, not even once haveI been worth of belonging to your heart[…]
    • 1989, Gorka Aulestia,Basque-English Dictionary, Douglas: William A,page53:
      Ni errege izan nintzen.
      I was king.
    • 2013, Patricio Urquizu Sarasua,Gramática de la lengua vasca, Universidad Nacional de Educación de Distancia,page154:
      Ni etorri naiz.
      I have come.

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Basque personal pronouns
singularplural
plainemphaticplainemphatic
1st personnineu,nihaur,neraugugeu,guhaur,gerok
2nd personfamiliarhiheu,hihaur,herorizuekzeuek,zuhauek,zerok
neutralzuzeu,zuhaur,zerori
3rd personusedemonstrative andanaphoric pronouns

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  • “ni”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “ni”, inOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary],Euskaltzaindia,1987–2005

Biloxi

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Noun

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ni

  1. Synonym ofani(“water”)

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Breton

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Brythonic*ni, fromProto-Celtic*snīs.

Pronoun

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ni

  1. we(first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

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FromProto-Brythonic*nei, fromProto-Celtic*neɸūss, fromProto-Indo-European*népōts.

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ni m (pluralnied)

  1. nephew

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Conjunction

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ni

  1. neither,nor

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ni

  1. not even,even

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Noun

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ni f (pluralnis)

  1. nu; theGreek letterΝ (lowercaseν)

Czech

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ni f

  1. accusativesingular ofona

Danish

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   Cardinal:ni
   Ordinal:niende
Danish Wikipedia article on9

Etymology

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FromOld Norseníu, fromProto-Germanic*newun, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁néwn̥(“nine”).

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ni

  1. nine

Drung

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Etymology

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FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-nəj.

Noun

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ni

  1. day

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  • Ross Perlin (2019)A Grammar of Trung‎[5], Santa Barbara: University of California

Dumbea

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ni

  1. they

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

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Determiner

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ni

  1. this.

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ni

  1. this.

Esperanto

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Etymology

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FromItaliannoi,Frenchnous,Spanishnos,Latinnos, plus thei of personal pronouns.

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ni (first-person plural,accusativenin,possessivenia)

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
    Ni batis lin.
    We hit him.
  2. ourselves
    Ni diris alni.
    We said toourselves.

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Esperanto personal pronouns
 singularplural
nominativeaccusativepossessivenominativeaccusativepossessive
first person mi min mia ni nin nia
second
person		formal vi vin via vi vin via
familiar1 ci cin cia
third
person		masculine li lin lia
feminine ŝi ŝin ŝia
neuter ĝi ĝin ĝia
gender-neutral2 ri
ŝli		 rin
ŝlin		 ria
ŝlia
reflexive si sin sia si sin sia
indefinite oni onin onia oni onin onia

1 The second person familiar pronouns are archaic.

2 The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronounsri (rin,ria) andŝli (ŝlin,ŝlia) are not widely used.

3 The proposed third-person feminine plural pronouniŝi (iŝin,iŝia) is not widely used.

French

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchny, fromOld Frenchne, fromLatinnec. CompareItalianné,Catalan andSpanishni,Portuguesenem.

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ni

  1. neither;nor
    • 1898,Revue du monde invisible, page339:
      Notre imagination, si ardente qu’on la suppose, ne peutni guérir instantanément une lésion organique,ni ressusciter un mort.
      Our imagination, so ardent as we suppose, canneither instantaneously heal an organic lesion,nor resuscitate the dead.
    • 1876,Bulletins et mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, Volume 12:
      […] les constitutions accidentelles ou intercurrentesne sontni moins importantesni plus faciles à expliquer.
      […] accidental or intercurrent constitutions areneither less importantnor easier to explain.
    • c.1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Preuves par discours I – Papier original : RO 3-1 r° / v° et RO 7-1 r° / v°”, inPensées [Thoughts]‎[6]:
      Mais nousne connaissonsni l’existenceni la nature de Dieu, parce qu’iln’ani étendue,ni bornes.
      But we knowneither the existencenor the nature of God, because He hasneither extentnor limits.

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  • Used with the negative particlene.
  • Chiefly used at least twice in the same sentence the same wayneither andnor would be used in an English sentence, such asni riche, ni pauvre(“neither rich nor poor”).

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Gothic

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Romanization of𐌽𐌹

Hanunoo

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Etymology

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FromProto-Austronesian*ni(“marker of possession”).

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  • IPA(key):/ˈni/[ˈni]
  • Rhymes:-i
  • Syllabification:ni

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ni (Hanunoo spellingᜨᜲ)

  1. of;by
    ti lukani Bado ―lime tubeof Bado
    Kinaonni Bado ti burot.
    The wild yam was eatenby Bado.

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Further reading

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  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953)Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page198

Hausa

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-Chadic, fromProto-Afroasiatic*ʔanāku.

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nī

  1. I(1st person singular pronoun)

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  • mínì (1st person singular indirect object enclitic pronoun)
  • nì (1st person singular independent object pronoun)
  • -wá (1st person singular possessive enclitic pronoun)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Native word of debated origin:[1]

  1. Shortened fromnézd(“look!”) ~nízd (a dialectal variant).
  2. Anonomatopoeia expressing astonishment.

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ni

  1. (colloquial)lo!,look!
    Itt vanni! ―Look! Here it is!

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Most of the time it is used in its duplicated form:nini!

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  1. ^ni in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.).Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006,→ISBN.  (See alsoits 2nd edition.)

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  • ni inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

Idi

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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Ido

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ni

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

Ingrian

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ni

  1. Alternative form ofniin
    • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova,Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:
      Jot saavva tiitä mitä ono pintamaas,ni pittää tehä mokomat oopьtat.
      In order to get to know what is in the topsoil, (that's why) it's important to perform such experiments.

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  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971)Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page340

Interlingua

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromFrench andSpanishni, fromLatinnec(“and not”).

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ni

  1. andnot.
    Io non sape,ni vole saper ―I don’t know,and I don’t want to know
  2. Neither,nor.
    Illoni me placeni displace ―Itneither pleases menor displeases me
  3. And,or (following a "with no" or "without").
    Nos debe resister sin aquani alimento ―We must resist with no wateror food

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Blend ofno +‎sì.

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ni

  1. (informal) neitheryes norno

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ItalianWikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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ni m orf (invariable)

  1. nu (Greek letter)

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Japanese

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Thehiragana syllableに(ni) or thekatakana syllableニ(ni) inHepburn romanization.

Kamano

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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

Kansa

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Etymology

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FromProto-Siouan*wa-rį́•(“water”).

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ni

  1. water
  2. anyliquid
  3. river

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Kedah Malay

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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ni

  1. you(singular)

Klao

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ni

  1. water

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  • World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002,→ISBN

Laboya

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ni

  1. coconut

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  • Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “ni”, inLamboya word list‎[7], Leiden: LexiRumah

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Etymology

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FromOld Latinnei, fromProto-Italic*nei, fromProto-Indo-European*néy(“not”), from*né. Cognates includeGothic𐌽𐌴𐌹(nei),Lithuaniannei,Old Church Slavonicни(ni),Old Irishní andSanskritन(ná). See alsonē.

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nī (notcomparable)

  1. not,if...not,unless- an absolutely negative particle likene so only in combinations

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nī

  1. not, that not,unless; likene in imperative and intentional clauses
    Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas. ―Takenot whatsoever hope hence.
    Vinum aliudve quidni laudato. ―Idon't praise wine or anything else.
    Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent,ni pollucerent ...ni qui ad polluctum emerent. ―[The Roman king] Numa ordained that scaleless fish beneither offered [to the gods] ...nor bought for offering.

Ligurian

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Etymology

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FromLatinnec.

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ni

  1. nor
  2. neither...nor
  3. either...or

Livonian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Finnic*nügüt. Cognates includeFinnishnyt.

Adverb

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ni

  1. now

Lolopo

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Etymology

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FromProto-Loloish*(ʔ)-ne¹, fromProto-Lolo-Burmese*ʔnəj¹/³, fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-nəj(“sun; day”).

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ni 

  1. (Yao'an)day

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  • Merrifield, Judith, Merrifield, Scott (2018) “Query for ni”, inYao'an Loxrlavu – English Dictionary (in Chinese), SIL International

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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FromMiddle High Germannie, fromOld High Germannio. Cognate withGermannie.

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ni

  1. never

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Malay

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ni (Jawi spellingني)

  1. Colloquial form ofini

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ni (Jawi spellingني)

  1. Colloquial form ofini

Mandarin

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ni

  1. Nonstandard spelling ofnī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling ofní.
  3. Nonstandard spelling ofnǐ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling ofnì.

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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Etymology

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FromProto-Micronesian*niu, fromProto-Oceanic*niuʀ, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*niuʀ.

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ni

  1. coconut tree

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  • iu (coconut)

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Middle English

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Adverb

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ni

  1. Alternative form ofne

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ni

  1. Alternative form ofne

Middle Irish

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ni

  1. Alternative spelling ofní

Mizo

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Kuki-Chin*nii(“sun; day”), fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-nəj(“sun; day”).

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ni

  1. sun
  2. day
  3. time

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ni

  1. aunt

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Mohegan-Pequot

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ni (first person singular)

  1. singular first-person pronounI

Mokilese

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Etymology

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FromProto-Micronesian*niu, fromProto-Oceanic*niuʀ, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*niuʀ.

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ni

  1. coconut tree

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Navajo

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ni

  1. second person singular pronounyou
    Shí dóóni ayóo ałk’is niidlį́.
    You and I are really good friends.
  2. second person singular possessive pronounyours
    Díí naaltsoos éíni.
    This book is yours.

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The verb in Navajo incorporates information about person, and many sentences may thus not have explicit independent pronouns. For instance:

  • Hooghandi naniná.
  • Ni éí hooghandi naniná.

Both sentences are grammatically complete, and mean essentially the same thing:you are at home. The verbnaniná is in the second-person form, so the pronoun can be safely omitted, as in the first sentence. This is similar to pronoun dropping in other languages where the verb specifies person, such as Spanish. Meanwhile, the explicit use ofni in the second sentence emphasizes that the speaker is talking aboutyou. This can be thought of as roughly equivalent to the use of emphasis in English: while the first sentence comes across asyou're at home, the second one is more likeyou, you're at home.

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Navajo personal pronouns
singulardualplural
1st personshínihídanihí
2nd personninihídanihí
3rd personbíbídaabí
4th person (3a)hóhódaahó

Naxi

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-ŋja.

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ni

  1. fish

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FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*g/s-ni-s.

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ni

  1. two

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  • Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Ningil

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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  • 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), inPhonologies of five Austronesian languages (Richard Loving, John M. Clifton; 1975) : /ni/

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers
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   Cardinal :ni
   Ordinal :niende

Etymology

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FromOld Norseníu (whence alsoDanishni,Icelandicníu,Faroeseníggju andSwedishnio) fromProto-Germanic*newun, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁néwn̥. Cognate withGothic𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽(niun);Old Englishniġon (Englishnine);Old Frisiannigun (West Frisiannjoggen);Old High Germanniun (Germanneun).

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ni

  1. nine

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers
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   Cardinal :ni
   Ordinal :niande

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Etymology

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FromOld Norseníu.

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ni

  1. nine

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Nutabe

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ni

  1. water

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Old Czech

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Pronoun

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ni

  1. dualaccusative ofoně

Old High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-Germanic*ne.

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Particle

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ni

  1. not

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Descendants

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  • Middle High German:ne
    • German:nee(dialectal)

Old Irish

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Particle

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ni

  1. Alternative spelling ofní

Omaha-Ponca

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Etymology

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FromProto-Siouan*wa-rį́•(“water”).

Noun

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ni

  1. water

References

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

Phalura

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Etymology 1

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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Determiner

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ni (demonstrative,Perso-Arabic spellingنیۡ)

  1. this (agr: prox fem / prox non-nom masc)

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  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, inPalula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[8], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives,→ISBN

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ni (demonstrative,Perso-Arabic spellingنیۡ)

  1. these (agr: prox)

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  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, inPalula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[9], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives,→ISBN

Etymology 3

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ni (demonstrative,Perso-Arabic spellingنیۡ)

  1. it
  2. she (prox fem nom)

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Etymology 4

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ni (demonstrative,Perso-Arabic spellingنیۡ)

  1. they (prox nom)

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  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, inPalula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[11], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives,→ISBN

Polish

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Etymology 1

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    Proto-Indo-European*ney
    Proto-Balto-Slavic*nei
    Proto-Slavic*ni
    Polishni

    Inherited fromProto-Slavic*ni.

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    ni

    1. (archaic)Synonym ofani
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    Seenie.

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    ni

    1. (dialectal,Przemyśl)Alternative form ofnie

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    Seeny.

    Noun

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    ni n (indeclinable)

    1. Alternative form ofny

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    • ni inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • ni in Polish dictionaries at PWN
    • Aleksander Saloni (1899) “ni”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors,Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page241

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    Borrowed fromAncient Greekνῦ(nû).

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    • Hyphenation:ni

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    ni m (pluralnis)

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

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    ni

    1. Romanization ofᚾᛁ

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    ni

    1. topour; towater.

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    Noun

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    ni

    1. headhair.

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    FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-nəj. Cognate withBurmeseနေ(ne) andနေ့(ne.),Old Chinese日(*njiɡ).

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    ni

    1. day (24 hour).
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    Etymology 1

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    Inherited from Latin.

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    ni

    1. Alternative form ofne(dative ofnoi): tous
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    This form is used whenne (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:

    • îl(the accusative ofel, contracted asni-l)
    • îi(the accusative ofei, contracted asni-i)
    • le(the accusative ofele)
    • se(the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)
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    Borrowed fromHungarianni.

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    ni

    1. (Transylvania)lo!,look!,behold!
      Ni la el! ―Look at him!

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    ni

    1. some(plural indefinite article)

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    FromProto-Slavic*ni(“nor, not”), fromProto-Balto-Slavic*nej, fromProto-Indo-European*ney. Compareni-,ne.

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    ni (Cyrillic spellingни)

    1. (emphasizes negation)even,either
      ni ja to ne znam — even I don't know that; I don't know that either
      Nisamni htio čuti njegov prijedlog.
      I didn't even want to hear his proposal.

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    ni (Cyrillic spellingни)

    1. (shortening ofniti)neither,nor
      ona nije ni pametna ni(ti) marljiva — she is neither smart nor industrious
      ni traga ni glasa o .. — not a trace about ..
      ni kriv ni dužan — completely innocent (lit. neither guilty nor indebted)

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    ni

    1. us,accusative ofnuàutri
    2. us,dative ofnuàutri
    3. us,reflexive ofnuàutri

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    nominativenuàutri
    prepositionalnuàutri
    accusativeni
    dativeni
    reflexiveni
    possessivenostru

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    ní

    1. negativethird-personsingularpresent ofbíti

    Spanish

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    • IPA(key):/ˈni/[ˈni]
    • Rhymes:-i
    • Syllabification:ni

    Etymology 1

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    FromOld Spanishnin, fromLatinnec,apocopated form ofneque, fromProto-Indo-European*nekʷe(“and not, neither, nor”), from*né(“not”) +*-kʷe(“and”). CompareAsturian andGaliciannin,Catalan andFrenchni,Portuguesenem,Italianné,Dalmatianne. Indo-European cognates includeGothic𐌽𐌹𐌷(nih) andIrishnach.

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    ni

    1. (coordinating)neither...nor
      Antonym:o ... o
      No tengoni dineroni tiempo.
      I haveneither moneynor time.
      1. (with three or more referents)noneof...
        Ni Juan,ni Pedro,ni Felipe te darán la razón.
        None of John, Peter, or Phillip will give you the reason.
    2. nor,or
      No descansa de díani de noche.
      He doesn't rest during the daynor during the night.
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    ni

    1. not even
      No descansabani por un minuto
      I didn't resteven for a minute.
      Ni yo sé qué significa esta palabra.
      Not even I know what this word means.
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    ni f (pluralníes)

    1. nu; the Greek letterΝ,ν
      Synonym:ny

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    Ajamiنِـ

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    The use as a focus marker is original. This then acquired a presentative meaning (“it is”), which was finally reanalyzed as a copula.[1]

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    ni

    1. focus marker
      • 2022,Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar: Chimbuko, Misingi na Maendeleo, Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania,→ISBN:
        Lengo la Mwalimu Nyerere kujiuzulu nafasi hiyo lilikuwani pamoja na kukiimarisha chama cha TANU kuweza kuyakabili vizuri majukumu ya uhuru.
        Mwalimu Nyerere's goal when he resigned from that position wasnothing but to strengthen the TANU party to be able to effectively face the responsibilities of independence.

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    ni

    1. positive degreepresent andgnomic (all persons, numbers, and classes) of-wa(“to be”)

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    1. ^John H. McWhorter (1992) “NI and the Copula System in Swahili: A Diachronic Approach”, inDiachronica, volume 9, number 1,→DOI, pages15–46

    Swedish

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    Since 1661, throughrebracketing of the 2nd plural verb suffix-(e)n and the older pronounI ("ye"), e.g.vissten I >vissteni (“did you know”). CompareIcelandicþér andþið which developed similarly.

    TheOld Swedishī,īr derives fromOld Norse*īʀ (East Norse variant ofér) fromProto-Germanic*jīz, fromProto-Indo-European*yúHs. CompareDanishI.

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    ni

    1. you (plural nominative)
      Du är bara en person, menni där borta är fyra personer
      You are just one person, butyou/you guys over there are four people
    2. you (second-person singular nominative formal) (capitalizedNi, rare in modern use)
      1. (obsolete) title used when addressing a person of lower social rank
        –Ni kan börja med att städa kontoret, fröken Andersson.
        –Javisst, Herr Direktör.
        –You can start with cleaning the office, miss Andersson.
        –Certainly, Mr. Director
      2. (colloquial, perceivedformal,derogatory to some) by some considered a respectful alternative todu(“you”), especially when addressingcustomers or theelderly
        Villni ha en påse med köpet?
        Doyou want a bag with your purchase?

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    Bothni ander are second person plural forms, but can also be used as formal second person singular, as in the GermanSie or Frenchvous. It may sometimes also be capitalized (Ni,Er). The courteous "ni" was introduced in Swedish around the year 1900 as an alternative to the more complicated pattern of addressing others in the third person singular by their appropriate titles. This required knowledge of social status, occupation, educations, etc. with terms likefru(“Mrs.”) orfröken(“Ms.”),greve(“count”),kamrer(“accountant”),kandidat(“bachelor's degree holder”), etc. However this "ni-reform" was not well liked and when authority came to use the wordni to their subordinates the word got a condescending undertone. Interestingly enough the olderI, from whichni was originally formed, was used alongsideni all along (and is still in use in some dialects) but never got the condescending undertone thatni got. This was all phased out gradually during the 1960s and 1970s in the so-calleddu-reformen, (“the you-reform”). In contemporary Swedish,du is universal and may be used to address anyone, regardless of differences in social status or age.

    Ni is used occasionally by younger speakers to address customers in order to be formal and polite. However this is often seen as being overly formal and too contrived, even condescending and insulting, especially by older speakers. Formality and politeness in modern Swedish is not conveyed through specific grammatical forms, but primarily done through indirectness, manners of speaking or various other behaviors.

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    Swedish personal pronouns
    NumberPersonnominativeobliquepossessive
    commonneuterplural
    singularfirst—jagmig,mej3minmittmina
    second—dudig,dej3dindittdina
    thirdmasculine (person)hanhonom,han2,en5hans
    feminine (person)honhenne,na5hennes
    gender-neutral (person)1henhen,henom7hens
    common (noun)dendendess
    neuter (noun)detdetdess
    indefinitemanoren4enens
    reflexive—sig,sej3sinsittsina
    pluralfirst—viossvår,våran2vårt,vårat2våra
    second—nierer,eran2,ers6ert,erat2era
    archaicIedereder,eders6edertedra
    third—de,dom3dem,dom3deras
    reflexive—sig,sej3sinsittsina
    1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.
    2Informal
    4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative toman, to avoid association to the male gender.
    5Informal, somewhat dialectal
    6Formal address
    7Discouraged by theSwedish Language Council

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    Tagalog

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    Etymology 1

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    FromProto-Austronesian*ni(“marker of possession”).

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    ni (pluralnina,Baybayin spellingᜈᜒ)

    1. of;possessive particle, used only with personal names
      bisikletani Juan ―Juan's bicycle
    2. objective marker for personal names, objective form ofsi; functional equivalent ofng
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    Tagalog markers
    direct (ang)indirect (ng)oblique (sa)
    commonsingularangngsa
    pluralangmgangmgasamga
    personalsingularsinikay
    plural / politesinaninakina

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    Borrowed fromSpanishni(“not even”), fromOld Spanishnin, fromLatinnec,apocopated form ofneque.

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    ni (Baybayin spellingᜈᜒ)

    1. neither;nor
      Ni ako hindi nagsisigarilyo. ―Even I don't do cigarettes.
      Ni asoni pusa. ―Neither dognor cat.

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    ni (Baybayin spellingᜈᜒ)

    1. not even
      Synonym:ni ultimo
      Hindi ako humingini isang butil ng bigas. ―I didn't asknot even for a single grain of rice.

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    ni (Tifinagh spellingⵏⵉ)

    1. (intransitive) tomount(on an animal)
    2. (intransitive) toget into, toboard, toembark(a vehicle)

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    • Verbal noun:tnaya(“mounting, boarding”)
    • Causative:sni(“to make board”)
    • tnaya(“transport”)
    • amnay(“rider; cavalier, knight”)

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    FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian*ni. Cognates includeTuvaluanni andSamoanni.

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    ni

    1. Plural indefinite article;any
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    impersonal
    singularplural
    definitetenā
    indefiniteheni
    personal
    nominalpronominal
    simpleia
    afteri/kiaa te
    aftermaiia te

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    ni

    1. Changes a statement into a polite question;isn'tit?doesn'tit?

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    • R. Simona, editor (1986),Tokelau Dictionary‎[12], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page250

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    ni

    1. I

    Ura (Vanuatu)

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    ni

    1. tree

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

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    Yangi Imlo
    Cyrillicни‍
    Latin‍
    Perso-Arabic
    (Afghanistan)

    ni

    1. accusative case marker; placed after the direct object of a transitive verb
      Men O'zbektilini o'rganyapman.
      I am studying Uzbek.

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    Borrowed fromRussianни(ni).

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    ni

    1. not, not a,no

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    Not inflected.

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    ni ... ni

    1. neither ...nor

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    • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “ни”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[13], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

    Vietnamese

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    Seenày.

    This is one of many cases in whichmonophthongs were notdiphthongized in Central Vietnamese, comparemày vs.mi,chấy vs.chí,nước vs.nác.

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    ni

    1. (Central Vietnam)this

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    ni

    1. (Central Vietnam)now

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    Vietnamese demonstratives
    proximal
    (*-iː)    		distal 1
    (*-iːʔ)    		distal 2
    (*-əːʔ)    		distal 3/
    remote
    (*-ɔːʔ)    		interrogative
    (rime was a rounded
    back vowel)
    place, attributive1
    n-    		ni
    nì
    này/nầy
    nây    		ní
    nấy    		nớnọ
    (nó)    		nào
    place, nominal2
    đ-    		đâyđấy
    (ấy)    		—đóđâu
    manner
    r-    		ri
    rày    		—rứa—ru
    sao3
    extent 14
    b-    		bâybấy——bao
    extent 25
    v-    		vầyvậy———
    1 Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hencenơi này(“this place; here”),nơi nào(“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language).
    2 Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, henceđây(“here”),đâu(“where”).
    3 From earlier*C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).
    4 Placed before the head:bâynhiêu(“this much”),bấynhiêu(“that much”),bao nhiêu(“how much”).
    5 Placed after the head:nhanh vầy(“this fast”),nhanh vậy(“that fast/so fast”).
    visibility/evidentiality6
    distal
    (ngang)    		remote
    (huyền)
    Northern-Southernkia
    (cơ)    		kìa
    (cờ)
    Centraltêtề
    6 Originally, these demonstratives might have been used to assert that something isvisible and/orverifiable. They have been bleached quite thoroughly and currently are usually used like other distal demonstratives. The biggest trace of their evidentiality might be in their usage as final particles, often in reduced formscơ/cờ:[t]ừ đấy về tới Hà Nội, còn những ba cái cầu nữacơ mà! ("From there to Hanoi, there're still three more bridges to cross!") (Ba ngày luân lạc, 1943).


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    FromProto-Brythonic*ni, fromProto-Celtic*snīs.

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    ni

    1. us;we

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    FromProto-Celtic*nīs, fromProto-Indo-European*neh₁ésti(“is not”).

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    ni (triggersmixed mutation)

    1. (literary)not
      • 2004,Beibl Cymraeg Newydd Diwygiedig‎[14], Cymdeithas y Beibl, Genesis 21:26:
        Dywedodd Abimelech, “Ni wn i ddim pwy a wnaeth hyn;ni ddywedaist wrthyf, acni chlywais i sôn am y peth cyn heddiw.”
        Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this; you did not tell me, and I did not hear anything about it until today.”
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    • Triggers mixed mutation (i.e.aspirate ofp,t,c andsoft of remaining mutatable letters) of a following consonant.
    • The formnid is used before a vowel. When the following consonant isg, which disappears under soft mutation, the formni remains, thusni +gwn becomesniwn, not *nidwn.
    • In literary registers,dim(“anything”) may be added (asddim, withsoft mutation) for emphasis, soni chlywais i ddim may mean either “I did not hear anything” or simply “I did not hear”. In the colloquial language,ni is omitted but the mixed mutation remains, givingchlywais i ddim (“I didn't hear”).[1]
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    1. ^Gareth King, editor (2000), “ni”, inPocket Modern Oxford Welsh Dictionary: Welsh-English, Oxford University Press,→ISBN

    West Makian

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    ni (possessive prefixni)

    1. second-person singular pronoun,you

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    West Makian personal pronouns
    independentpossessive prefix
    1st person singulardeti
    2nd person singularnini
    3rd person singularmemVan.,dVinan.
    1st person pluralinclusiveenenV
    exclusiveimimi
    2nd person pluralinifi
    3rd person pluralemedi

    V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun,
    following standardWest Makian vowel harmony.

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    • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[15], Pacific linguistics

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    FromMandarin你 (nǐ).

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    ni

    1. you(second-person subject pronoun)

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    singularpaucalcollective
    subjectiveobjective
    first personngungangu-jhegenga-mu
    second personniniani-jhegeni-mu
    third persongugu-jhegegu-mu

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    ni

    1. water

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    • 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, inPhonologies of five Austronesian languages (Richard Loving, John M. Clifton; 1975) : /ni/

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    IPA(key):/nĩ́/

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    ní

    1. The name of theLatin-script letterN/n.
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    IPA(key):/nĩ́/

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    ní

    1. (transitive) tohave

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    IPA(key):/nĩ́/

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    ní

    1. at,in(used when no movement is implied)
    2. preposition used for creating adverbials
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    IPA(key):/nĩ́/

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    ní

    1. (intransitive) tosay
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    IPA(key):/nĩ̄/

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    ni

    1. (transitive) tobe(to have a quality or identification)
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    This verb cannot be used with regular subject pronouns such asmo oró, and emphatic subject pronouns must be used in their place. This verb is also often used in a flipped structure where the quality or identification becomes the grammatical subject of the verb while an object pronoun is used for the actual subject of the sentence.

    1. Òunni ọ̀rẹ́ mi. –He is my friend. (uses the emphatic pronounòun instead ofó)
    2. Ṣé ọmọ Yorùbáni yín? –Are you Yoruba? (Ọmọ Yorùbá becomes the subject ofni while "you" becomes the object pronounyín)
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    IPA(key):/nĩ̄/

    1. (intransitive) to bebloated, to betumid

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    Ni.

    FromProto-Kuki-Chin*nii, fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-nəj. Cognates includeNorthern Min日(nì) andBurmeseနေ(ne).

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    ni

    1. sun

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       Cardinal :ni

    FromProto-Kuki-Chin*ni, fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*g/s-ni-s. Cognates includeNorthern Min二(nī) andTibetanགཉིས(gnyis).

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    ni

    1. two

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    • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013)A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page40

    Zulu

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    Etymology 1

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    (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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    -ni?

    1. what (kind of)
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    Enumerative concord, tone H
    modifier
    class 1muni
    class 2bani
    class 3muni
    class 4mini
    class 5lini
    class 6mani
    class 7sini
    class 8zini
    class 9yini
    class 10zini
    class 11luni
    class 14buni
    class 15kuni
    class 17kuni

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

    Pronoun

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    -ni

    1. Combining stem ofnina.

    References

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