nyne

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Numeral

nyne

1. nine
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor, page 389:

     Prōsequēbātur dēlūde Athe, nyne, thiine, thiinita, thunetua, thunetria etc.

     He then went on: Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen etc.

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nyne     Ordinal: nynthe

Alternative forms

• nine, nin, niȝen, neghen, neyen, nyen, niwon, niȝhenn

Etymology

From the inflected forms of Old English nigon, from Proto-West Germanic *nigun, variant of *neun, in turn from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

The uninflected forms are continued by Early Middle English /ˈniɣə/, which develops into /niː/ before falling out of use.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːn(ə)/, /niː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈniɣə/, /ˈniɣən(ə)/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): (earlier) /nei̯n/, /ˈneːɣən/, (later) /neːn/ (Northern)

Numeral

nyne

1. nine

Related terms

• nynthe
• nynetene
• nynty

Descendants

• English: nine
• English: (Ottawa-Valley) nein
• Scots: nine, neen, nyn, nyne
• Yola: neen

Scots

Numeral

nyne

1. alternative form of nine

References

• “nyn, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 4 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.