nì
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ni"
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Blend of no (“no”) + sì (“yes”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
nì
Anagrams edit
Mandarin edit
Alternative forms edit
Romanization edit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倪
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匿
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坣
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 堄
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫟
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嬺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屰
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嶷
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 惄
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 愵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 慒
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 昵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 晰
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 暱/昵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氼
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濖
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灃/沣
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 睨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 糑
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 縌/𰬳
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胒
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膩/腻
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 衱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷁/鹢
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷊/鹝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鹝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鹢
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
nì
- future indicative independent of dèan
Usage notes edit
- The dependent form is dèan.
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Irish ní (“something, n of nech”) conflated with reanalysis of Old Irish aní (“that which”) as an nì (“the thing”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nì m (genitive singular nì, plural nithean or nithe)
Derived terms edit
- An Nì Math (“God”)
- neoni (“zero; nothing; nil”)
- nì-eigin (“something”)
Noun edit
nì m (genitive singular nith, no plural)
References edit
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “nì”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN