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Nish

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English

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Noun

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Nish (uncountable)

  1. (informal, Anishinaabe English terminology) Clipping of Anishinaabe.

Proper noun

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Nish

  1. Alternative form of Niš, Serbia.
    • 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
      From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is detached.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Ναϊσσός (Naïssós).[1]

Proper noun

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Nish m (definite Nishi)

  1. Niš (a city in Serbia)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Serbo-Croatian: Ниш (Niš)

References

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  1. ^ Huld, Martin E. (1986) “Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, volume 99, number 2, →JSTOR, page 248