nui
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forNgumbi.
nui (intransitive,henceinvariable)
- pastparticiple ofnuire
FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian*nui.
nui
- plenty, alot,size,dimension,number,area
- group, before nouns
- nui manō ―group of sharks
nui
- (stative)big,great,abundant
FromLatinnōs. CompareItaliannoi,Siciliannui,Dalmatiannu.
nui
- we
Fromnu(“well”) +i(“too”). Akin toSamogitiannoi.
- IPA(key): [ˈnùi̯]
- Hyphenation:nui
nui
- yes,that'sright
- Nicole Nau (2011),A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH,→ISBN
nui
- nonstandard spelling ofnuí
- 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.
FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian*nui.
nui
- big
FromProto-Kuki-Chin*(h)nu(u)y.
nui (stem IInuih)
- tosmile
- tolaugh
Cognate withMinica Huitotonui andNüpode Huitotonui.
- IPA(key): [ˈnui̯]
- Hyphenation:nui
nui
- anaconda,boa
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017),A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page194
FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian*nui.
nui
- big,great
FromLatinnūbes. CompareItaliannube andnuvola.
nui
- (Campidanese)cloud
FromLatinnōs. CompareItaliannoi.
nui
- we
- The pronounnui is rarely used in Sicilian by itself. Instead, the preferred forms combinenui(“we”) andàutri(“others”), such asnuàutri.[1]
- ^Pitrè, Giuseppe (1875),Fiabe, novelle e racconti popolari siciliani, Volume 4[1] (in Italian), Palermo: L. Pedone Lauriel,→ISBN, page ccx
Southeastern Tepehuan
[edit]Cognate withNorthern Tepehuannuí,O'odhamñuvĭ.
nui (pluralnunnui)
- turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
- R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016),Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;48)[3] (in Spanish), electronic edition,Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page136
FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian*nui.
nui
- (archaic)big
Largely replaced byrahi, except in some common compounds likeTahiti nui.
- Lemaître, Yves (1995),Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon][4] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom,→ISBN
- “nui” inDictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
FromFrenchnouille(“noodle”).
nui
- macaroni
- nui xào bò ―stir-fried macaroni with beef
- Not to be confused withnuy.
