nui
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
nui (intransitive, hence invariable)
- past participle of nuire
Anagrams edit
Hawaiian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nui
Verb edit
nui
Istriot edit
Etymology edit
From Latin nōs. Compare Italian noi, Sicilian nui, Dalmatian nu.
Pronoun edit
nui
Latgalian edit
Etymology edit
From nu (“well”) + i (“too”). Akin to Samogitian noi.
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
nui
Synonyms edit
References edit
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
nui
- Nonstandard spelling of nuí.
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.
Maori edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.
Adjective edit
nui
Antonyms edit
- punua (“small, little”)
Rapa Nui edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.
Adjective edit
nui
Derived terms edit
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin nūbes. Compare Italian nube and nuvola.
Noun edit
nui
Sicilian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin nōs. Compare Italian noi.
Pronoun edit
nui
Usage notes edit
- The pronoun nui is rarely used in Sicilian by itself. Instead, the preferred forms combine nui (“we”) and àutri (“others”), such as nuàutri.[1]
See also edit
References edit
Southeastern Tepehuan edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Northern Tepehuan nuí, O'odham ñuvĭ.
Noun edit
nui (plural nunnui)
References edit
- 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)[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 136
Tahitian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.
Adjective edit
nui
Usage notes edit
Largely replaced by rahi, except in some common compounds like Tahiti nui.
References edit
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “nui” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
From French nouille (“noodle”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nui
Usage notes edit
- Not to be confused with nuy.