nia

See also: NIA, nía, nĩa, niā, nią, -nia, and ni'a

Abenaki

Etymology

Cognate to Penobscot nis (“I”).

Pronoun

nia

1. I (the singular first person pronoun)

References

• Joseph Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues (1884)
• John Dyneley Prince, The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects, in the American Anthropologist, volume 4 (1902)

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Esperanto

Determiner

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

1. our

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French

Verb

nia

1. third-person singular past historic of nier

Anagrams

• n'ai

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Ido

Pronoun

nia

1. our

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Irish

Etymology

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 (napā), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n̠ʲiə/

Noun

nia m (genitive singular nia, nominative plural nianna)

1. nephew

Coordinate terms

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

References

• "nia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “2 nia, niae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Ladin

Adjective

nia

1. no, not (after a negative) any

Adverb

nia

1. nothing, anything
2. at all

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Machiguenga

Noun

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.

References

• Pueblos del Perú (2006)

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• niae

Etymology

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 (napā), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈ʲi.a/

Noun

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

1. nephew, sister’s son

Inflection

Masculine d-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: nia
• Manx: neear

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
nïa also nnïa after a proclitic	nïa pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	nïa also nnïa after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “2 nia, niae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Penobscot

Etymology

Cognate to Abenaki nis (“I”).

Pronoun

nia

1. I (the singular first person pronoun)

References

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

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Suki

Noun

nia

1. water

References

• 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).

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Swahili

Noun

nia (needs class)

1. intention (course intended to follow)

This Swahili entry was created from the translations listed at intention. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see nia in the Swahili Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2009

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Swedish

Etymology 1

From the digit nio (“nine”)

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of nia
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	nia	nian	nior	niorna
Genitive	nias	nians	niors	niornas

See also

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

Etymology 2

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

Verb

nia

1. to address someone with ni (rather than du) as a sign of respect or deference

Antonyms

• dua

Usage notes

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.

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Timucua

Etymology

Compare Tawasa néăh (“woman”).

Noun

nia

1. woman

References

• Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, ISBN 0817307044)