nin

See also: NIN, Nin, nín, ñin, nǐn, and -nin

English

Etymology

Probably derived from Welsh nain (“grandmother”), but see also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

nin (plural nins)

1. (dialect, Liverpool) Affectionate name for a grandmother.

Synonyms

• nan, nana, nanna

Anagrams

• INN, NNI, inn

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Abinomn

Noun

nin

1. food

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Alemannic German

cardinal number

9	Previous:	acht
	Next:	zää

Alternative forms

• nine, nüün

Etymology

From Middle High German niun, from Old High German niun, from Proto-Germanic *newun. Cognate with German neun, Dutch negen, English nine, Icelandic níu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nin/

Numeral

nin

1. (Alsatian) nine

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• ñin (conjunction)

Conjunction

nin

1. neither, nor, (not) either

Interjection

nin

1. right? (used as a kind of tag question)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnin]

Noun

nin m (plural nins, feminine nina)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of nen

Further reading

• “nin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nin”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “nin” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nin” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Esperanto

Etymology

Esperanto first person plural pronoun ni + accusative/objective case ending -n.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

nin

1. accusative of ni

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Galician

Adverb

nin

1. nor
2. even

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nin/

Adverb

nin

1. in

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Japanese

Romanization

nin

1. Rōmaji transcription of にん

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Mandarin

Romanization

nin (nin⁵／nin⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄋㄧㄣ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of nín.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nǐn.

Usage notes

• 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.

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Middle English

Numeral

nin

1. Alternative form of nyne

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Novial

Novial cardinal numbers

<  8	9	10  >
Cardinal : nin     Ordinal : ninesmi

Numeral

1. nine

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Somali

Noun

nin ?

1. man

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Volapük

Noun

nin (nominative plural nins)

1. contents

Declension

declension of nin

	singular	plural
nominative	nin	nins
genitive	nina	ninas
dative	nine	nines
accusative	nini	ninis
vocative 1	o nin!	o nins!
predicative 2	ninu	ninus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only