Nish

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Etymology 1

Noun

Nish (uncountable)

  1. (informal, Anishinaabe English terminology) Clipping of Anishinaabe/Nishnaabe.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nish

  1. Alternative form of Niš, Serbia.
    • 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
      From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is detached.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ναϊσσός (Naïssós).[1]

Proper noun

Nish m (definite Nishi)

  1. Niš (a city in Serbia)

Declension

Declension of Nish
singular
indefinite definite
nominative Nish Nishi
accusative Nishin
dat./abl. Nishi Nishit

Descendants

  • → Serbo-Croatian: Ниш (Niš)

References

  1. ^ Huld, Martin E. (1986) “Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, volume 99, number 2, →JSTOR, page 248
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