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**Ancient Greek Alphabet**
← mu		→ xi
Ν ν Ancient Greek: νῦ
Wikipedia article on nu

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû), name for the letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuː/
(General American) IPA^(key): /nu/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -uː

Noun

nu (countable and uncountable, plural nus)

The letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
A measure of constringence in lenses or prisms.

Derived terms

Translations

name for the letter of the Greek alphabet: Ν and ν

Arabic: نُو m (nū)
Asturian: ni (ast) f
Azerbaijani: nü
Catalan: ni (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 紐 / 纽 (zh) (niǔ)
Czech: ný n
Danish: ny (da) n
Dutch: nu (nl) m or f
Esperanto: nuo (eo)
Finnish: nyy (fi)
French: nu (fr) m
Galician: ni (gl) m
German: Ny (de) n
Greek: νι (el) n (ni)
Ancient: νῦ n (nû)
Hungarian: nű (hu)
Japanese: ニュー (ja) (nyū), ニ (ja) (ni)
Korean: 뉴 (ko) (nyu)
Malay: nu (ms)
Persian: نو (fa) (nu)
Polish: ni (pl) n, ny (pl) n
Portuguese: ni (pt) m
Russian: ню (ru) n (nju), ни (ru) n (ni) (modern Greek only)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ни

Latin: ni (sh)
Spanish: ni (es) f
Thai: นิว (niu)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yiddish נו (nu).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /nu/

Interjection

nu

(Jewish) An exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt, etc.
(Jewish) Well? (Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.)

Translations

exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt etc.

Russian: ну (ru) (nu)
Yiddish: נו (nu)

Etymology 3

Phonetic respelling of new.

Adjective

nu (comparative more nu, superlative most nu)

(slang spelling) new

Derived terms

Anagrams

'un, -un-, U.N., UN, Un, un, un-

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Verb

nu (Kana spelling ヌ)

(transitive) to hear
(transitive) to sense (a smell)
(possibly obsolete, transitive, + otta) to ask, enquire

Derived terms

inu (“to listen”)

Verb

nu

to drink

References

Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *niuʀ, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *niuʀ.

Noun

nu

coconut

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”). Related to ni. Compare Ancient Greek νῦν (nûn), Old High German nu (“now”).^[1]

Adverb

nu

when

Related terms

ni

References

[1]
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “nu”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 301

Pronunciation

(Zürich) IPA^(key): /nu/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German nūn, from Middle High German niuwan, variant of niuwar, from Old High German niwāri. Cognate with German nur.

Alternative forms

no, nun, nur
nume

Adverb

nu

only

Etymology 2

From Middle High German nu, from Old High German nu. Cognate with German nun.

Alternative forms

nuu

Adverb

nu

now
Synonym: jetz

Etymology 3

Historical or dialectal variants.

Adverb

nu

Alternative form of no

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Noun

nu

house

Etymology

From Latin nōn. Compare Romanian nu.

Adverb

nu

no
not

Interjection

nu

no

Antonyms

ie / e

Noun

nu

tree

References

Scorza, David. Au language word, phrase, clause. Ms. 82pp. (1976)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Numeral

nu

one

References

W. A. L. Stokhof, Preliminary notes on the Alor and Pantar languages (East Indonesia) (1975)
Internet Archive, The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nūdus, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnu]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -u

Adjective

nu (feminine nua, masculine plural nus, feminine plural nues)

nude, naked
(of things, such as trees, mountains, houses, etc.) barren, bare

Derived terms

Interjection

nu

(dated) expresses prompting
Nu pojď! ― Come on!
(dated) expresses agreement and participation in a conversation
Synonyms: tak, no, nó
(dated) expresses consolation (esp. to a child)

Etymology 1

From Latin novem.

Numeral

nu

nine

Etymology 2

From Latin nōs.

Pronoun

nu

(second-person plural pronoun) we

Related terms

noi

Etymology

From Old Norse nú (“now”), from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”). Cognate with English now.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/, [nu]

Noun

nu n (singular definite nuet, not used in plural form)

now (present time), present (current time)
moment
instant

Adverb

nu

now

Synonyms

Conjunction

nu

now

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ny/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -y

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch nu, from Old Dutch nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nu

now, at the present moment
Kom je nu of morgen?
Will you be coming now or tomorrow?
now, this time (indicating a certain amount of impatience)
Wat is er nu weer dan?
What is it now?

Synonyms

Descendants

Negerhollands: nue, nu, noe, nou
Skepi Creole Dutch: nou

Conjunction

nu

now (that)
Nu je het zegt, weet ik het weer.
Now you're saying it, I do remember it.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû). Doublet of noen.

Noun

nu m (plural nu's, diminutive nuutje n)

n (letter of the Greek alphabet)

Etymology

From Sorbian or Czech. Cf. no.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nɵ/

Adverb

nu

(Upper Saxon) yes

Etymology

From Old Norse nú, from Proto-Germanic *nu. Cognate with Swedish nu.

Adverb

nu

now, at this time

Etymology

From Russian ну (nu) and German nu, of Slavic origin (compare Polish no).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nu]
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: nu

Interjection

nu

well (filled pause, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question)
Nu, li diris, ke li ne volas ĉeesti la feston.
Well, he said he doesn't want to go to the party.

Noun

nu

mouth

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ny/
Audio: (file)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French nu, from Latin nūdus, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós.

Adjective

nu (feminine nue, masculine plural nus, feminine plural nues)

(person): naked, nude
(body, tree): bare

Derived terms

à main nue / à mains nues
à l’œil nu
à poings nus
cul nu
demi-nu
mettre à nu
nu comme un ver
pieds nus
torse nu
vérité toute nue

Noun

nu m (plural nus)

(art) nude

Descendants

→ Russian: ню (nju)
→ Ukrainian: ню (nju)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû).

Noun

nu m (plural nu or nus)

nu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

un

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nuu, from Latin nūdus, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós. Cognate with Portuguese nu.

Adjective

nu (feminine núa, masculine plural nus, feminine plural núas)

naked, nude
bare, barren

Related terms

nudez

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nu]

Adverb

nu

now

Etymology 1

From Middle High German nu, nuo. The form without a final -n remained common in some dialects and was reinforced by German Low German nu, from Middle Low German nû.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nuː/

Adverb

nu

(colloquial or archaic) Alternative form of nun

Derived terms

im Nu

Interjection

nu

(colloquial or archaic) Alternative form of nun

Etymology 2

From a Slavic dialect, probably Sorbian. Compare Czech ano (“yes”), Polish no (“yeah; well”), Russian ну (nu, “yeah; well”). In the sense of a filled pause touching on etymology 1 above.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nɵ]

Interjection

nu

(colloquial, regional, Saxony) yes; yeah; expresses agreement or understanding
(colloquial, regional, Saxony) well; fills pause

Romanization

nu

Romanization of 𐌽𐌿

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *niuʀ, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *niuʀ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /n̪u/

Noun

nu

coconut palm

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ну (nu).

Pronunciation

(Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnu/, [ˈnu]

(Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnu/, [ˈnu]

Rhymes: -u

Hyphenation: nu

Interjection

nu

Synonym of no (“well”)

References

Elena Markus (2024) “Syntax and functions of the Ingrian discourse particles no and nu”, in Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri, volume 15, number 1, pages 155-186

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnu/
Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: nù

Noun

nu m or f (invariable)

the name of the letter N

Anagrams

-un-, un, un'

Romanization

nu

The hiragana syllable ぬ (nu) or the katakana syllable ヌ (nu) in Hepburn romanization.

Etymology

From Portuguese nós.

Pronoun

nu

we

References

Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

**Kamkata-viri cardinal numbers**
< 8	9	10 >
Cardinal : nu

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *nuwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnu/

Numeral

nu (Kamviri, Western Kata-viri)^[1]

nine

References

[1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “n′u”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ñiuʀ. Compare Pohnpeian nih, Fijian niu, Tongan niu, Hawaiian niu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Noun

nu

coconut

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwa. Cognates include Burmese နွား (nwa:) and Chinese 牛 (niú).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nuː˧/, [nũː˧]

Noun

nu

cow

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu˧/

Adjective

nu

talkative

References

Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Particle

nu

well
Nu labi! ― Very well!
now
Ko nu? ― What now?

Interjection

nu

well
Nu, kas notika? ― Well, what happened?

Romanization

nu

Nonstandard spelling of nú.
Nonstandard spelling of nǔ.
Nonstandard spelling of nù.
Nonstandard spelling of nǘ.
Nonstandard spelling of nǚ.
Nonstandard spelling of nǜ.

Usage notes

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.

Pronoun

nu

Alternative spelling of nou

Etymology

From Old Dutch nu, from Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nu

now, currently
- 1249, Schepenbrief van Bochoute, Velzeke, eastern Flanders:
  Si maken bekent die nu sien ende wesen selen
  They make known to those who are now and will be
today
here
just now

Descendants

Dutch: nu
Limburgish: noe

Conjunction

nu

now that
since, because

Descendants

Dutch: nu
Limburgish: noe

Adverb

nu

Alternative spelling of nou

Etymology

Cognate with Vietnamese nâu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu¹/

Adjective

nu

(Mường Bi) brown

Alternative forms

'nu
n'

Etymology

From Latin ūnus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Article

nu m sg

a, an

Etymology

From Old French nu, from Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nu m

(Jersey) bare

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː/

Adverb

nū

so, thus, like that
so, to that extent

Etymology 1

Noun

nu m (definite singular nuen, indefinite plural nuer, definite plural nuene)

a trough

Etymology 2

From Old Norse nú.

Adverb

nu

(archaic or dialectal) now; Alternative form of nå

Interjection

nu

Alternative form of nå

Noun

nu n (definite singular nuet, uncountable)

Alternative form of nå

References

“nu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology 1

Noun

nu m (definite singular nuen, indefinite plural nuar, definite plural nuane)

a trough

Etymology 2

From Old Norse nú.

Adverb

nu

(dialectal) now; Alternative form of no

Interjection

nu

Alternative form of no

Noun

nu n (definite singular nuet, uncountable)

Alternative form of no

References

“nu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nū

now
- wat unbidan we nu?
  what are we waiting for now?

Descendants

Middle Dutch: nu
- Dutch: nu
- Limburgish: noe

Alternative forms

nuu — Northumbrian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nuː/

Adverb

nū

now
Iċ eom nū on þǣre cyċenan.
I'm in the kitchen right now.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"
  Nerō cwæþ, "Hwæt is nū, Simōn? Iċ wēne wit sind oferswīðde."
  Nero said, "What is it now, Simon? I think we've been defeated."
just (in the sense "recently")
Iċ wæs nū on þǣre cyċenan.
I was just in the kitchen.
since
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
  Nū ðū þæt swā openlīce onġiten hæfst, ne þearfe ic nū nauht swīþe ymbe þ swincan þæt ic þē mā be gode recce.
  Since thou hast so clearly understood this, I need not now greatly labour in order that I may instruct thee further concerning good;...
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
  Þȳ iċ wundriġe hwȳ þū ne mæġe onġietan þæt þū eart nū ġīet swīðe ġesǣliġ, nū þū ġīet leofast and eart hāl.
  So I wonder why you can't understand that you're still very lucky, since you're still alive and healthy.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
  Nu ge þam mærum godum offrian nellað, ne beo ge me næfre heonon-forð swa wurðe ne swa leofe swa ge ær wæron...
  Since ye will not offer to the great gods, ye shall never henceforth be to me so worthy nor so dear as ye were before;...

Derived terms

nū rihte

Related terms

nūna

Descendants

Middle English: nou, noue, nu, no, neue, niu, noug, nough, nuge
- English: now
- Geordie English: noo
- Scots: nou, noo
- Yola: neow, nowe, now

Conjunction

nū

now that

Etymology

From Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular nue)

naked

Adverb

nu m (feminine nue)

naked

Descendants

Middle French: nu, nud
- French: nu

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nū

now

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

𑀦𑀼 (Brahmi script)
नु (Devanagari script)
নু (Bengali script)
නු (Sinhalese script)
နု or ၼု (Burmese script)
นุ (Thai script)
ᨶᩩ (Tai Tham script)
ນຸ (Lao script)
នុ (Khmer script)
𑄚𑄪 (Chakma script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit नु (nu), from Proto-Indo-European *nu.

Particle

nu

then, now

Alternative forms

forms used in “pet talk”, when talking to a specific animal^[1]

nugu (capuchin monkey)
idinu (titi monkey)
nuptu (squirrel monkey)
winu (curassow)
pɔnu (trumpeter)
nɯnu (coati)
pinu (agouti)
tɔnu (peccary or dog)
ɛŋnanu (macaw)
ɛŋnaɾanu (toucan)
unu (spider monkey)
nũ (howler monkey)
næ (tortoise)

Noun

nu

tumour; abscess

References

2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Pronoun

nu (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نوۡ)

it
he
this one (prox masc nom)

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “nu”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Determiner

nu (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نوۡ)

this (agr: prox nom masc)

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “nu”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Adverb

nu

now

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnu/

(Masovia):
- (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈnu/

Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -u
Syllabification: nu

Interjection

nu

quick!, forward!
(dialectal, Far Masovian) Alternative form of no (“yes”)
Umniés pisać? Nu ale umniem. (Far Masovian) ― Can you write? Yes I can.

Alternative forms

nú (obsolete, now a common misspelling)
nù (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nuu, from Latin nūdum. Compare Galician nu, Italian nudo, French nu.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnu/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnu/

Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: nu

Adjective

nu (feminine nua, masculine plural nus, feminine plural nuas)

naked, nude

Derived terms

desnuar
nu-proprietário
nuamente
nuidade
pôr a nu

Related terms

denudação
denudar
denudável
desnudar
nudação
nudez
nudeza
nudicaule
nudípede
nudismo
nudista

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/ (tone class A)

Numeral

**Prasuni cardinal numbers**
< 8	9	10 >
Cardinal : nu

nu (Pronz)^[1]

nine

References

[1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “nu”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

Alternative forms

ну (nu) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nōn. Compare Aromanian nu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -u
Audio: (file)

Adverb

nu

no
not

Usage notes

Romanian features the double negative. Nu is stressed within a normal sentence, but in a double negative construction is left unstressed in favour of the other negative component.

In speech—even in moderately formal contexts—nu is elided before verbs beginning with a, most notably the past perfect auxiliary avea.

Likewise, nu triggers prodelision before words (of any part of speech) beginning with î. Elision and prodelision are orthographically marked with a hyphen where no line break may occur.

In these cases, the syllable following the n of nu takes the sentence stress, which is stronger than the primary stress of the negated word.

Antonyms

da

References

nu in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Interjection

nu

well

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nǫ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Conjunction

nu (Cyrillic spelling ну)

(Croatia) but
(Croatia) however

Synonyms

ȁli, no, nut

Determiner

nu

that, those

References

Chicham: Dictionario Enciclopédico Shuar-Castellano

Article

nu m sg

(indefinite) a, an

Usage notes

Nu is used only before words beginning with the letter z or s and a consonant, like the Italian uno

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nù(ʔ)]
Hyphenation: nu

Noun

nu (stem -nu-)

Ford Liard form of ndu

Inflection

More information singular, plural ...

		singular	plural
1st person		senué	naxenué
2nd person		nenué	naxenué
3rd person	¹⁾	—	ginué
3rd person	²⁾	menué	gonué
4th person		yenué	gonué
reflexive	sp.	ɂedenué	kedenué
reflexive	unsp.	denué
reciprocal		—	ɂełenué
indefinite		ɂenué
areal		gonué
¹⁾ Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. ²⁾ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

Close

Possessive inflection of nu (-nué)

References

Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 11

Romanization

nu

Romanization of 𒉡 (nu)

Etymology

From Old Norse nú, from Proto-Germanic *nu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nʉː/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ʉː

Adverb

nu (not comparable)

now, at this moment

References

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰnuːᴬ. Cognate with Thai หนู (nǔu), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨶᩪ, Lao ໜູ (nū), Tai Dam ꪘꪴ, Lü ᦐᦴ (ṅuu), Shan ၼူ (nǔu), Zhuang nou, Saek หนู่.

Pronunciation

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [nu˧˧]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [nu˦˥]

Noun

nu (𪺹, 𮮬)

(zoology) mouse

References

Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *niuʀ.

Noun

nu

coconut

Etymology

From English new.

Adjective

nu

new
fresh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Determiner

-nu

this, these (proximal demonstrative determiner)

Declension

More information Noun class, non-copulative ...

Noun class	non-copulative		copulative
Noun class	singular	plural	singular	plural
1/2	onu	banu	ngunu	mbanu
3/4	gunu	enu	ngunu	nginu
5/6	linu	ganu	ndinu	nganu
7/8	kinu	binu	nkinu	mbinu
9/10	enu	zinu	nginu	nzinu
11/10	runu	zinu	ndunu	nzinu
12/14	kanu	bunu	nkanu	mbunu
13		tunu		ntunu
14/6	bunu	ganu	mbunu	nganu
15/6	kunu	ganu	nkunu	nganu
16	hanu		mpanu
17	kunu
18	munu

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Inflected forms of -nu

Derived terms

leero nu (“now, today”)

References

Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 405

Adverb

nu

now

Derived terms

nuik

**Waigali cardinal numbers**
< 8	9	10 >
Cardinal : nu

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *nuwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnu/

Numeral

nu (Nisheigram)^[1]

nine

References

[1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “nu”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu/

Pronoun

nu

me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)
Pinyanka nu! Katsa umawiu? Nama!
Tell me! What did [he] say? Come on!

Puputatain nu kuapi.
Give me a little [bit of] cotton thread.

Related terms

natu (I,me, my, mine)

References

E. Ireland field notes. Needs to be checked by a native speaker.

Pronoun

nu

we (first-person plural object pronoun)

Pronoun

nu

he
she

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nu˧/

Noun

nu

mother

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45

[1] [1]
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “nu”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 301

[NEL-2] [1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “n′u”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

[NEL-3] [1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “nu”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

[NEL-4] [1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “nu”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

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Sicilian articles
	Masculine	Feminine
indefinite singular	un, nu	na
definite singular	lu, û	la, â
definite plural	li, î	li, î

	singular	plural
1st person	mo mwa (objective)	nou
2nd person	to (informal), ou (formal) twa (objective)	zot
3rd person	li	zot, bann-la

	singular subject	plural subject	singular object	plural object
1st person	man	nun	ma	nu
2nd person	yow	yeen	la	leen
3rd person	moom	ñoom	ko	leen

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