FromOld English nū ,Middle English nou , in dialects without the shift/uː/ →/aʊ/ .
noo (notcomparable )
( dialectal , Scotland , Geordie ) Now .Often preceded by the definite article:the now . Scott Dobson , Dick Irwin, “noo”, inNewcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group [1] , archived fromthe original on5 September 2024 .“Noo”, inPalgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group [2] , archived fromthe original on5 September 2024 , from F[ rancis] M[ ilnes] T[ emple] Palgrave,A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham [ … ] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for theEnglish Dialect Society by Henry Frowde,Oxford University Press , 1896,→OCLC . Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases , George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3] Bill Griffiths , editor (2004 ), “noo”, inA Dictionary of North East Dialect , Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear:Northumbria University Press ,→ISBN .noo
Elongated form ofno .noo
Pronunciation spelling ofnew , representing dialects withyod-dropping .probably unrelated terms containing "noo"
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cloud ( white; not rainclouds ) Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007 ), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, inOceanic Linguistics , volume46 , number 2 . Cited in: "Äiwoo " in Greenhill, S.J.,Blust, R. , &Gray, R.D. (2008).The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics .Evolutionary Bioinformatics , 4:271–283.Borrowed fromJapanese 能 ( nō ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈnoo/ Rhymes:-oo Syllabification:no‧o noo (accusative singular noon ,plural nooj ,accusative plural noojn )
noh FromProto-Finnic *noo , fromProto-Uralic *no . Cognates includeFinnish nuo andKarelian nuo .
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those Too andnoo aredeictic : They refer to physical entities. In contrast,se andneet areanaphoric , and thus refer to something that is previously mentioned in the conversation.V. I. Junus (1936 ),Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka [4] , Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page99 Arvo Laanest (1966 ), “Ижорский Язык ”, inФинно-Угорские и Самодийские языки (Языки народов СССР ), volume 3, Moscow:Наука , page108 Ruben E. Nirvi (1971 ),Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja , Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page347 Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014 ),Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку [5] ,→ISBN , page13 FromCanadian French nos .
noo m pl or f pl (singular not )
our noo
small boat Inherited fromMiddle Scots now , fromEarly Scots now , fromMiddle English nou , fromOld English nū ( “ now, at present, at this time, immediately, very recently ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *nū , fromProto-Germanic *nu ( “ now ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *nū ( “ now ” ) .
noo (notcomparable )
now ( with the definite article ) just now ,right now 2006 , Cecilia Grainger,Bruised Blue :Thurs something noh richt here…Zeb widnae jist up an leave athoot telling me…NAW he’ll be herethe noo and send you raggle taggle bunch oan yur wae…aye yull be telt ti follow his commands or CLEAR OFF THIS LAND…! There's something not right here…Zeb wouldn't just up and leave without telling me…NO he'll be herejust now and send you ragtag bunch on your way…yes you'll be told to follow his commands or CLEAR OFF THIS LAND…! 2008 ,James Kelman ,Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin, page406 :She is in 3rd year, she does no want you, you are no even thirteen. So? I nearly am. Aye but ye are nothe now . She is in 3rd year, she wouldn't want you, you are not even thirteen. So? I'm nearly thirteen. Right, but you are notright now . “noo,adv. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language , Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC , retrieved12 June 2024 , reproduced from W[ illiam] Grant and D[ avid] D. Murison, editors,The Scottish National Dictionary , Edinburgh:Scottish National Dictionary Association , 1931–1976,→OCLC . “now,adv. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language , Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC , retrieved12 June 2024 , reproduced fromWilliam A[ lexander] Craigie ,A[ dam] J[ ack] Aitken [ et al. ] , editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: [ … ] , Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press , 1931–2002,→OCLC . CompareKapampangan kanuan ( “ forehead ” ) .
noó (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂ )( anatomy )
forehead ;brow “noo ”, inKWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino ,Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino ,2025 “noo ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph ,2018 Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860 ),Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados. [6] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier. San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613 ),Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte. [7] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen.Juan de Silva ,Pila, Laguna : La noble Villa de Pila, porTomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page324 : “Frente) Noo (pp) del hombre ”