nain

Borrowed from Welsh nain (“grandmother”).^[1]

nain (plural nains)

1. (North Wales) A grandmother.

   Synonym: mamgu (Southern)

   Coordinate term: taid

   • 2015 July 15, Lorna Doran, “The best places for kids to eat in Wales - as recommended by YOU”, in WalesOnline‎, archived from the original on 2018-01-04:

     Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.

From English nine.

• IPA^(key): /najn/

nain (Bengali script নায়্ন or নাইন)

1. nine

• chykhyw
• no

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

nain

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of naida

• Anni, Nina

Inherited from Old French nain, from Latin nānus.

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̃/

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nain (feminine naine, masculine plural nains, feminine plural naines)

1. dwarf

   Antonym: géant

   Hypernym: petit

• nanifier
• nanisme
• nano-

nain m (plural nains, feminine naine)

1. dwarf

   Antonym: géant

2. gnome (decorative, in a garden)

• nanomaniaque

• pygmée m

• “nain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• Nina

From Proto-Finnic *nainën, equivalent to naija (“to marry”) +‎ -in. Cognates include Finnish nainen and Estonian naine.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯ne/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/,
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. woman
2. wife

• (wife): naisikko

• (woman): mees (“man”)
• (wife): mees (“husband”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/,
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. inflection of naija:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular past indicative

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “найне”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 51
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 334
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 73

nain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ナイン

• nayn

From Old French nain, from Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origins.

nain m (plural nains)

1. dwarf

• French: nain

• naim (Thomas d'Angleterre)

From Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origin.

nain oblique singular, m (oblique plural nainz, nominative singular nainz, nominative plural nain)

1. dwarf (mythical being)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     "Nains!", fet ele, "leisse m'aler!
     A cel chevalier vuel parler

     "Dwarf!" Said she "let me pass"
     It's to the knight that I wish to talk

2. midget

• Middle French: nain
  • French: nain

From the prothetic n- +‎ ain, from the wrong division of mine ain as my nain.^[1]

nain (comparative mair nain, superlative maist nain)

1. (Shetland) own

   He was my nain bairn. ― He was my own child.

• ain

nain

1. Alternative spelling of nane

From English nine.

nain

1. nine

Used when counting; see also nainpela.

From Proto-Finnic *nainën.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/,
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. woman
2. wife

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Proto-Brythonic *nanī, from Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”), probably from a Proto-Indo-European root imitative of a child speaking, similar to Ancient Greek νάννα (nánna).

• IPA^(key): /nai̯n/
• Rhymes: -ai̯n

nain f (plural neiniau)

1. (North Wales) grandmother

   Synonym: mam-gu

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of nain to nhain. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also mam to mham for a similar example.

• tad-cu (“grandfather”)
• taid (“grandfather”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies