nne
Igbo
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ńné
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
Noun
nne (possessed nnedü, plural nnakomo)
- child, offspring; son or daughter
- (in relation to a man) brother’s son or daughter, fraternal niece or nephew
- (in relation to a woman) sister’s son or daughter, sororal niece or nephew
- male parallel cousin’s child
- female cross-cousin’s child
Usage notes
Unlike other animate nouns (including kinship terms), this noun is never used with the plural possessive suffix -tomo; instead, the general plural suffix -komo is exceptionally used with its possessed form, with the noun itself also undergoing an irregular vowel change in the plural.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nne”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 117–118
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “nnedü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “nnedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 70, 74: “ünnedü”
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Numeral
nne
- four; 4
Further reading
- Northern Sotho language
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210426194356/https://ioling.org/booklets/iol-2015-team-sol.en-gb.pdf
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Numeral
nne
Swahili
40 | ||
← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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Cardinal: -nne Ordinal: -a nne |
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Numeral
-nne (declinable)
Inflection
Coordinate terms
Swahili cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
Noun
nne (n class, plural nne)
See also
Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text) | ||||||
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ree, rea, rei | mbili | tatu | nne | tano | sita | saba |
nane | tisa | kumi | ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu | malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi | mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha | jokari |
Tswana
< 3 | 4 | 5 > |
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Cardinal : nne | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Numeral
nne
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