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Egyptian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nuːiː/
- Conventional anglicization: nuy
Noun
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m
- (uncountable) water
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 83–86:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n ḏd.n.f n.j (j)n-mj jn tw zpwj snwj nḏs (j)n-mj jn tw r jw pn n(j) wꜣḏ-wr ntj gs(wj).fj m nwy
- Then he said to me,
―Who brought you, who brought you, little man? Who brought you to this island of the sea, both of whose sides are in the water?
Related terms
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References
[edit]- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 149.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]nwy
- Alternative form of noy
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /nuːɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /nʊi̯/
- Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯
Etymology 1
[edit]From a conjectured element *ny- (“spreading”) + gwy (“fluid”).[1]
Noun
[edit]nwy m (plural nwyon, not mutable)
Derived terms
[edit]- nwy dagrau m (“tear gas”)
- nwy naturiol m (“natural gas”)
- nwyeiddio (“gasify”, verb)
- nwyol (“gaseous”, adjective)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Numeral
[edit]nwy
- Nasal mutation of dwy.
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
dwy | ddwy | nwy | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
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- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Welsh/ʊɨ̯
- Rhymes:Welsh/ʊɨ̯/1 syllable
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh nouns
- Welsh countable nouns
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- Welsh masculine nouns
- cy:Physics
- Welsh non-lemma forms
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