nebi

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi (compare Ojibwe nibi (nipi)), from Proto-Algic *nepiʔi (“water”).

nebi

1. water

• awighiganebi (“ink”)

• nebes (“lake”)

• Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 30
• John Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, page 21 of 17–32

• IPA^(key):

nebi

1. inflection of nebe:
   1. dative/locative singular
   2. instrumental plural

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepiʔi (“water”).

nebi

1. water

• J. Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist (in Penobscot), volume 4

From Latin nix, nivem, from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snéygʷʰs, derived from the root *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛbi/

nebi f (invariable)

1. snow
   • 1866, chapter XVII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎ (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 2, page 65:

     E si tralfiguresi dananzi a eddis. E la so' faccia rilplindisi cumenti lu soli: e li so' viltiri si fesini bianchi cumenti la nebi.

     [E si trafiguresi dananzi a eddis. E la so' faccia riprindisi cumenti lu soli: e li so' visthiri si fesini bianchi cumenti la nebi.]

     And he was transfigured in front of them. And his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as snow.

   • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “Manzanu di nèbi [Snow morning]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 95:

     Arimani una dì ch'éra un incantu,
     e abà tutt'è bïancu, è fiucchendi,
     e nèbi n'à ficchidu più d'un pàimu.

     Yesterday was a wonderful day, and now everything is white, it's snowing, and more than a palm of snow has fallen.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Guasi una fantasia [Almost a fantasy]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 135:

     Dananzi a l’occi abaraggiu un paesi
     cuberthu da la nebi
     digussì intatta e fini che in pintura.

     I'll have in front of my eyes a country covered by snow as intact and fine as in a picture.

• Ugo Solinas (2016) “nèbi”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 2, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 867
• Giosue Muzzo (1981) “nèbi”, in Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 134
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “neve”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• beni

nebi

1. locative singular of nebo

From Ottoman Turkish نبی (nebi), from Arabic نَبِيّ (nabiyy).

• IPA^(key): /ne.biː/

nebi (definite accusative nebiyi, plural nebiler or enbiya)

1. prophet