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nai

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "nai"
Languages (22)
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Ajië • Aromanian • Dalmatian • Finnish • Galician • Gullah • Japanese • Livonian • Lote • Mandarin • Middle English • Murui Huitoto • Ngazidja Comorian • North Frisian • Romanian • Saterland Frisian • South Efate • Sranan Tongo • Vietnamese • Welsh
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Translingual

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Etymology

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Initialism of English North American Indian.

Symbol

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nai

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for North American Indian languages.

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Hindi नाई (nāī).

Noun

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nai (plural nais)

  1. (India) barber.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Romanian nai.

Noun

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nai (plural nais)

  1. (music) A Romanian diatonic pan flute used since the 17th century.
Synonyms
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Anagrams

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Ajië

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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nai

  1. to plant

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Aromanian

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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nai f (plural nãi)

  1. region, province, county

Etymology 2

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From Latin nāvis. Compare archaic Romanian naie.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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nai f (plural nãi)

  1. vessel, boat (especially with sails)
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Etymology 3

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Adverb

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nai

  1. the most

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin nix, nivem. Compare Romanian nea, Italian neve, Romansh naiv, Catalan neu.

Noun

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nai f

  1. snow

Finnish

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯/, [ˈnɑ̝i̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi
  • Syllabification(key): nai
  • Hyphenation(key): nai

Verb

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nai

  1. third-person singular present/past indicative of naida

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯ˣ/, [ˈnɑ̝i̯(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi
  • Syllabification(key): nai
  • Hyphenation(key): nai

Verb

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nai

  1. inflection of naida:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

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Galician

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Galician Wikipedia has an article on:
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nai e fillo ("mother and son")

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, influenced by the archaic nana (“mother”),[1] from Latin mater. Cognate of Portuguese mãe.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnaj/ [ˈna̠j]
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: nai

Noun

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nai f (plural nais)

  1. mother
    • 2016, Xurxo Sierra Veloso, Os fíos, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN:
      Apuntamentos para axenda mental de hoxe: rifa coa miña nai. A ver por que lle ten que ir contando ela a ninguén que precisei psiquiatra despois da miña separación?
      Appointment in today's TODO mental schedule: arguing with my mother. Why she has to go around telling anyone that I needed a psychiatrist after my separation?

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “padre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Gullah

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Gullah numbers (edit)
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    African Cardinal: nai
    American Cardinal: foe
    Ordinal: foe
    Adverbial: fuh fo
    Multiplier: fo-time
    Collective: allfo

Etymology

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From Fula nai.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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nai

  1. fourth

Number

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nai

  1. four
    Synonym: foe

Usage notes

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  • Gullah communicates both the number and its ordinal adjective in the same word.

References

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  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Japanese

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Romanization

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nai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ない

Livonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *nainën.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnɑi/, [ˈnɑ̯iˑ]

Noun

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nai

  1. woman
  2. wife

Declension

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Declension of nai (191)
singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv) nai naizt
genitive (genitīv) naiz naizt
partitive (partitīv) nāizta naiži
dative (datīv) naizõn naiztõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) naizõks naiztkõks
illative (illatīv) naizõ naižiz
inessive (inesīv) naizõs
naisõ 		naižis
elative (elatīv) naizõst
naistõ 		naižist

References

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  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “nai”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Lote

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Numeral

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nai

  1. two

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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nai

  1. nonstandard spelling of nái
  2. nonstandard spelling of nǎi
  3. nonstandard spelling of nài

Usage notes

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  • 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.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Norse nei.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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nai

  1. no

Noun

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nai (plural nais)

  1. denial, refusal

Adverb

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nai

  1. no, not

Descendants

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  • English: nay
  • Yola: naay, na

References

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Murui Huitoto

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnai̯]
  • Hyphenation: nai

Root

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nai

  1. this, that (anaphoric, specific)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 185
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 161

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Adjective

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nai

  1. bad

References

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  • “nai” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

North Frisian

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *niwjaz.

Adjective

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nai

  1. (Mooring) new
Inflection
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Inflection of nai (Mooring dialect)
  masculine feminine /
neuter 		plural
indefinite definite
positive
predicative / adverbial nai
attributive / independent naien naie nai naie
partitive nais —
comparative
predicative / adverbial naier
attributive / independent naieren naiere naier naiere
partitive naiers —
superlative
predicative / adverbial am naisten
attributive / independent — naiste naist naiste
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Etymology 2

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From Old Frisian nēi, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw (“close, near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz (“close, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to attain, reach”).

Adjective

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nai

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) close, near
Alternative forms
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  • noi (Goesharde)
  • näi (Wiedingharde)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نای (nay), from Persian نی (ney).

Noun

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nai n (plural naiuri)

  1. a type of pan flute

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative nai naiul naiuri naiurile
genitive-dative nai naiului naiuri naiurilor
vocative naiule naiurilor

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  • → English: nai

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Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian nēi, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw (“close, near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz (“close, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to attain, reach”).

Adjective

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nai

  1. close, near

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South Efate

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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nai

  1. water

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch naaien.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nai

  1. to sew

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Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Vietic *k-ɗeː. Cognate with Muong đai and Arem kadeː.

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  • (North Central Vietnam) nây

Noun

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(classifier con) nai • (狔, 猍, 󰶀, 𬸼)

  1. sambar deer
  2. (by extension) any species of deer
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Etymology 2

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Unknown. Perhaps from the "confused" look that deer in general exhibit. Perhaps popularized by the lines that describe "a confused deer walking on autumn leaves" from the poem Tiếng thu (“Sounds of Autumn”) by Lưu Trọng Lư, and subsequently the pop song Mắt nai cha cha cha (“Cha-Cha-Cha Deer Eyes”) which describes the innocence of young girls.

Adjective

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nai

  1. (informal) innocent; naive
    giả nai
    to act innocent; to act dumb; to feign ignorance

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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(classifier cái) nai • (坭, 󰑴)

  1. (rare, possibly obsolete) kind of bottle for storing wine

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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nai • (抳)

  1. to tighten; to strap
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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Middle Welsh nei, from Proto-Brythonic *nei, from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nai m (plural neiaint, not mutable)

  1. nephew

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “nai”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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