nia
Translingual
editSymbol
editnia
See also
editEnglish
editEtymology
editFrom Hokkien 爾/尔 (niā, “only”).
Pronunciation
editParticle
editnia
- (Singlish) Used to downplay the intensity of something that has been overestimated. Might indicate a slight belittling tone.
- Don't so kiam siap can anot? That one only five cents nia. ― Come on, don't be so stingy. That costs only five cents.
Anagrams
editAbenaki
editEtymology
editCognate to Penobscot nis (“I”).
Pronoun
editnia
- I (the singular first person pronoun)
References
edit- Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 58
- John Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, page 28 of 17–32
Bavarian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editnia
Catalan
editVerb
editnia
- inflection of niar:
Ese
editNoun
editnia
Esperanto
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Determiner
editnia (plural niaj, accusative singular nian, accusative plural niajn)
See also
editFrench
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Verb
editnia
- third-person singular past historic of nier
Anagrams
editGaro
editEtymology
editFrom ni- + -a This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Verb
editnia (transitive)
Ido
editPronoun
editnia
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Hokkien 領/领 (niá, “collar”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnia
Further reading
edit- “nia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish nïa, from Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (n-p-a /napā/), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnia m (genitive singular nia, nominative plural nianna)
Declension
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Coordinate terms
editFurther reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Ladin
editAdjective
editnia
Adverb
editnia
Machiguenga
editNoun
editnia
- water
- 1999, Bibliografía peruana, page 140:
- Ogari nia onti pairo okametiti = El agua es muy buena : libro n.o 7; machiguenga con traducción al castellano.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
edit- Pueblos del Perú (2006)
Mandarin
editRomanization
editnia
- Nonstandard spelling of niā.
- Nonstandard spelling of niá.
- Nonstandard spelling of niǎ.
- Nonstandard spelling of nià.
Usage notes
edit- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (n-p-a /napā/), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnïa m (genitive nïad or nïeth, nominative plural nïaid)
- nephew, sister’s son
Inflection
editMasculine t-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | nia | nïaidL, nia | nïaid |
Vocative | nia | nïaidL, nia | nïada |
Accusative | nïaidN | nïaidL, nia | nïada |
Genitive | nïad, nïeth | nïad, nïeth | nïadN |
Dative | nïaidL | nïadaib | nïadaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Coordinate terms
edit- (gender): necht
Descendants
editMutation
editradical | lenition | nasalization |
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nïa also nnïa after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
nïa pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Penobscot
editEtymology
editPronoun
editnia
- I (the singular first person pronoun)
References
edit- J. Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist (in Penobscot), volume 4
- Frank G. Speck, Newell Lion (1918 August) “Penobscot Transformer Tales”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Penobscot), volume 1, number 3
Suki
editNoun
editnia
References
edit- Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Donald C. Laycock, Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell (1970), page 1260: The Suki word for water, nia, has certainly been borrowed from languages in the Mai Kussa-Pahoturi area (Warubi, Mikud, Agob) where it is widespread. From suki it will have found its way into Zimakani (neia).
Swahili
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editnia class IX (plural nia class X)
Verb
edit-nia (infinitive kunia)
Conjugation
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Swedish
editEtymology 1
editFrom the digit nio (“nine”).
Noun
editnia c
- nine; the digit "9"
- ninth-grader; pupil in the ninth and last year of compulsory school
- a class of ninth-graders
- (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) the ninth year in school
- De barnen går i nian.
- Those children are in ninth grade.
- a person who finish a competition as number nine
- (slang) a face
Declension
editSee also
editEtymology 2
editFrom ni (“you”) + -a, a common way of forming verbs in Swedish. First attested in 1731.[1]
Verb
editnia (present niar, preterite niade, supine niat, imperative nia)
Usage notes
edit- See the Wikipedia article on du-reformen for context.
- The term nia has varied considerably over time and location. After the 1960s and 1970s, the word du has in Sweden been used almost exclusively as second person personal pronoun, with a slight change in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when, for example, staff in restaurants and shops began to use ni towards the customers. Before the 1960s, however, there was a difference in use between Sweden and Finland: in both cases du was mainly used within family, among close friends, and when speaking to children. In Sweden, people with higher social statuses usually were addressed with surname and/or title, or if those were unknown, by reconstructing the sentence to use the passive voice or by using herr (Mr.), fru (Mrs.), or fröken (Miss), whereas people with lower statuses were addressed using ni. In Finland, the difference in status was not as commonly taken into account, and instead ni was used as the polite choice of pronoun regardless of social status.
Conjugation
editActive | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | nia | nias | ||
Supine | niat | niats | ||
Imperative | nia | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | nien | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | niar | niade | nias | niades |
Ind. plural1 | nia | niade | nias | niades |
Subjunctive2 | nie | niade | nies | niades |
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Present participle | niande | |||
Past participle | niad | |||
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See also
editReferences
edit- nia in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- nia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- nia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- ^ Svenska Akademiens ordbok, column D2307
Anagrams
editTetum
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-a, compare Malay dia and Nias ia and Tagalog niya.
Pronoun
editnia
Timucua
editEtymology
editCompare Tawasa néăh (“woman”).
Noun
editnia
References
edit- Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, →ISBN
Vietnamese
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editWutunhua
editEtymology
editRelated to Wutunhua ni, from Mandarin 你 (nǐ).
Pronunciation
editPronoun
editnia
- you (second-person non-subject pronoun)
See also
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- ISO 639-2
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- mcq:Anatomy
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- Rhymes:Esperanto/ia
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