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See also: näin, nai'n, and ŋăĭn

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English nine.

Pronunciation

Numeral

nain (Bengali script নায়্ন or নাইন)

  1. nine

Synonyms

References

Finnish

Verb

nain

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

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French nain, from Latin nānus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɛ̃/
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Adjective

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

  1. dwarf
    Antonym: géant
    Hypernym: petit

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

nain m (plural nains, feminine naine)

  1. dwarf
    Antonym: géant
  2. gnome (decorative, in a garden)

Related terms

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Ingrian

Nain.

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

nain

  1. woman
  2. wife
Declension
Declension of nain (type 1/kärpäin, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative nain naiset
genitive naisen naisiin
partitive naista, naist naisia
illative naisee naisii
inessive naisees naisiis
elative naisest naisist
allative naiselle naisille
adessive naiseel naisiil
ablative naiselt naisilt
translative naiseks naisiks
essive naisenna, naiseen naisinna, naisiin
exessive1) naisent naisint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
  • (woman): mees (“man”)
  • (wife): mees (“husband”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

nain

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

References

  • 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

Japanese

Romanization

nain

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ナイン

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

nain m (plural nains)

  1. dwarf

Descendants

  • French: nain

Old French

Alternative forms

  • naim (Thomas d'Angleterre)

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. dwarf (mythical being)
  2. midget

Descendants

Scots

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

nain (comparative mair nain, superlative maist nain)

  1. (Shetland) own
    He was my nain bairn. ― He was my own child.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Pronoun

nain

  1. Alternative spelling of nane

References

  1. ^ “nain” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin numbers (edit)
90
 ←  8 9 10  → 
    Cardinal: nain

Etymology

From English nine.

Numeral

nain

  1. nine

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also nainpela.

Coordinate terms

Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
0— — wan tu tri foa faiv sikis seven et nain
1— ten eleven twelv tetin fotin fiftin sikistin seventin etin naintin
2— twenti tupela ten wan tupela ten tu tupela ten tri tupela ten foa tupela ten faiv tupela ten sikis tupela ten seven tupela ten et tupela ten nain
3— teti tripela ten wan tripela ten tu tripela ten tri tripela ten foa tripela ten faiv tripela ten sikis tripela ten seven tripela ten et tripela ten nain
4— foti fopela ten wan fopela ten tu fopela ten tri fopela ten foa fopela ten faiv fopela ten sikis fopela ten seven fopela ten et fopela ten nain
5— fifti faivpela ten wan faivpela ten tu faivpela ten tri faivpela ten foa faivpela ten faiv faivpela ten sikis faivpela ten seven faivpela ten et faivpela ten nain
6— sikisti sikispela ten wan sikispela ten tu sikispela ten tri sikispela ten foa sikispela ten faiv sikispela ten sikis sikispela ten seven sikispela ten et sikispela ten nain
7— seventi sevenpela ten wan sevenpela ten tu sevenpela ten tri sevenpela ten foa sevenpela ten faiv sevenpela ten sikis sevenpela ten seven sevenpela ten et sevenpela ten nain
8— eti etpela ten wan etpela ten tu etpela ten tri etpela ten foa etpela ten faiv etpela ten sikis etpela ten seven etpela ten et etpela ten nain
9— nainti nainpela ten wan nainpela ten tu nainpela ten tri nainpela ten foa nainpela ten faiv nainpela ten sikis nainpela ten seven nainpela ten et nainpela ten nain

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nainën.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nain

  1. woman
  2. wife

Inflection

Declension of nain (type XII/sinin, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative nain naizõd
genitive naizõ naizijõ, naizi
partitive naissõ naizitõ, naizi
illative naizõ, naizõsõ naizisõ
inessive naizõz naiziz
elative naizõssõ naizissõ
allative naizõlõ naizilõ
adessive naizõllõ naizillõ
ablative naizõltõ naiziltõ
translative naizõssi naizissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

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

Welsh

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Noun

nain f (plural neiniau)

  1. (North Wales) grandmother
    Synonym: mam-gu

Usage notes

  • The usual word for "grandmother" in the Welsh of South Wales is mam-gu.

Usage notes

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.

Coordinate terms

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

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
nain unchanged unchanged nhain△
△Irregular.
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • 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
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