Central Kurdish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *náymah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *náymas (half).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Northern Kurdish nîv

نیو (nîw)

  1. half

Persian

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Etymology

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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]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? nēw
Dari reading? nēw
Iranian reading? niv
Tajik reading? nev

Adjective

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

  1. (archaic) brave, valiant

References

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  1. ^ Bartholomae, Christian (1904) “p. naiba-”, in Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary] (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nēbo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 286
  3. ^ 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

Further reading

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  • 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