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Niš

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Niš.

Proper noun

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Niš

  1. A city, the administrative centre of Nišava district, southern Serbia.

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *Nṑʃ, maybe from earlier Ancient Greek Ναϊσσός (Naïssós).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /nîːʃ/
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Proper noun

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Nȋš m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ни̑ш, relational adjective nȋškī, demonym Níšlija, female demonym Níšlījka)

  1. Niš (Serbian city)

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References

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  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20230206191240/https://www.albanologie.uni-muenchen.de/downloads/meldungen/gastvortrag_matzinger_nov_2016/muenchen_2_ethnogenese.pdf
  2. ^ Huld, Martin E. (1986), “Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, volume 99, number 2, →JSTOR, page 248