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Central Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *náymah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *náymas (“half”).
Pronunciation
Noun
نیو (nîw)
- half
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (nyw /nēw/, “good, brave, valiant”), from Old Persian 𐎴𐎡𐎲 (n-i-b /naibaʰ/, “blessed”), from Proto-Iranian *naybah (“fortunate, blessed”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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nēw
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| Dari reading?
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nēw
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| Iranian reading?
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niv
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| Tajik reading?
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nev
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Adjective
نیو • (niv) (comparative نیوتَر (niv-tar), superlative نیوتَرین (niv-tarin))
- (archaic) brave, valiant
References
- ^ Bartholomae, Christian (1904) “p. naiba-”, in Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary] (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nēbo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 286
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “noibo-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 236
Further reading
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “نیو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1395b