nia

nia

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nias.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Nias terms

From Hokkien 爾／尔 (niā, “only”).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /njɑ(ː)˨/

nia

1. (Singlish) Used to downplay the intensity of something that has been overestimated. Might indicate a slight belittling tone.

   Don't so kiam siap can anot? That one only five cents nia. ― Come on, don't be so stingy. That costs only five cents.

• Ian, nai, INA, AIN, Ani, Ain, ani, ain', ANI, Ina, -ian, ain

Cognate to Penobscot nis (“I”).

nia

1. I (the singular first person pronoun)

• Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 58
• John Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, page 28 of 17–32

• nej (Northern Bavarian)

Cognate with German nie.

• IPA^(key): (Central) /niɐ̯/

nia

1. never

nia

1. inflection of niar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

nia

1. (anatomy) eye

ni +‎ -a

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• IPA^(key): [ˈnia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ni‧a

nia (plural niaj, accusative singular nian, accusative plural niajn)

1. our

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nia

1. third-person singular past historic of nier

• n’ai

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nia (transitive)

1. look at, watch, test, try

nia

1. our

From Hokkien 領／领 (niá, “collar”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.a/
• Hyphenation: ni‧a

nia

1. (dialectal) collar

   Synonym: kerah

• “nia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Irish nïa, from Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (n-p-a /⁠napā⁠/), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

• IPA^(key): /n̠ʲiə/

nia m (genitive singular nia, nominative plural nianna)

1. nephew

• (gender): neacht
• (age): uncail
• (gender, age): aint, aintín

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

nia

1. no, not (after a negative) any

nia

1. nothing, anything
2. at all

nia

1. water
   • 1999, Bibliografía peruana, page 140:

     Ogari nia onti pairo okametiti = El agua es muy buena : libro n.o 7; machiguenga con traducción al castellano.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Pueblos del Perú (2006)

nia

1. Nonstandard spelling of niā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of niá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of niǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nià.

• 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.

• nïae

From Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (n-p-a /⁠napā⁠/), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈ʲi.a/

nïa m (genitive nïad or nïeth, nominative plural nïaid)

1. nephew, sister’s son

• (gender): necht

• Irish: nia
• Manx: neear

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Cognate to Abenaki nis (“I”).

nia

1. I (the singular first person pronoun)

• J. Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist (in Penobscot), volume 4
• Frank G. Speck, Newell Lion (1918 August) “Penobscot Transformer Tales”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Penobscot), volume 1, number 3

nia

1. water

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Donald C. Laycock, Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell (1970), page 1260: The Suki word for water, nia, has certainly been borrowed from languages in the Mai Kussa-Pahoturi area (Warubi, Mikud, Agob) where it is widespread. From suki it will have found its way into Zimakani (neia).

From Arabic نِيَّة (niyya).

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nia (n class, plural nia)

1. intention
2. purpose

-nia (infinitive kunia)

1. to decide, intend, resolve

From the digit nio (“nine”).

nia c

1. nine; the digit "9"
2. ninth-grader; pupil in the ninth and last year of compulsory school
3. a class of ninth-graders
4. (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) the ninth year in school

   De barnen går i nian.

   Those children are in ninth grade.

5. a person who finish a competition as number nine
6. (slang) a face

• nolla, etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva

From ni (“you”) +‎ -a, a common way of forming verbs in Swedish. First attested in 1731.^[1]

nia (present niar, preterite niade, supine niat, imperative nia)

1. to address someone as ni (as opposed to du (or with a title))

• See the Wikipedia article on du-reformen for context.
• The term nia has varied considerably over time and location. After the 1960s and 1970s, the word du has in Sweden been used almost exclusively as second person personal pronoun, with a slight change in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when, for example, staff in restaurants and shops began to use ni towards the customers. Before the 1960s, however, there was a difference in use between Sweden and Finland: in both cases du was mainly used within family, among close friends, and when speaking to children. In Sweden, people with higher social statuses usually were addressed with surname and/or title, or if those were unknown, by reconstructing the sentence to use the passive voice or by using herr (Mr.), fru (Mrs.), or fröken (Miss), whereas people with lower statuses were addressed using ni. In Finland, the difference in status was not as commonly taken into account, and instead ni was used as the polite choice of pronoun regardless of social status.

• dua

• nia in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• nia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• nia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Ina, ina

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-a, compare Malay dia and Nias ia and Tagalog niya.

nia

1. he

Compare Tawasa néăh (“woman”).

nia

1. woman

• Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, →ISBN

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [niə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [niə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [niə˧˧]

(classifier cái) nia • (𥬩)

1. a kind of winnowing basket

   Hypernym: nong

Related to Wutunhua ni, from Mandarin 你 (nǐ).

• IPA^(key): [n̪ʲa]

nia

1. you (second-person non-subject pronoun)