نیو

Central Kurdish

Northern Kurdish	nîv

نیو (nîw)

From Middle Persian [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (nyw /⁠nēw⁠/, “good, brave, valiant”), from Old Persian 𐎴𐎡𐎲 (n-i-b /⁠naibaʰ⁠/, “blessed”), from Proto-Iranian *naybah (“fortunate, blessed”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [neːw]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [neːw]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [neːw]

نیو • (niv) (comparative نیوتَر (niv-tar), superlative نیوتَرین (niv-tarin))

^ Bartholomae, Christian (1904) “p. naiba-”, in Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary] (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nēbo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 286
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “noibo-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 236

Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “نیو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1395b