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Asturian
Etymology
Derived in masculine from the feminine nieta, from Late Latin nepta, from Latin neptis (“granddaughter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nietu m sg (feminine singular nieta, masculine plural nietos, feminine plural nietes)
- grandson
Finnish
Etymology
From Russian нет (net), не́ту (nétu, “there is not”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nietu (slang)
- squat, nothing
- Valon lisäksi jääkaapissa on nietua. Täytyy käydä kaupassa.
- Apart from the light, there is squat in the fridge. Must go shopping.
Usage notes
- Almost exclusively used in the partitive case nietua.
Declension
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nětu.
Pronunciation
Phrase
nietu
- (attested in Lesser Poland) there is no, there are no
- Synonym: nie
1901 [1424], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume II, Radom, Sandomierz, Opoczno, page 302:Ysze Hanna bila w dzirzenyv zastawy they... we czthirzech grziwnach, yescze roku nethu- [Iże Hanna była w dzirżeniu zastawy tej... we cztyrzech grzywnach, jeszcze roku nietu]
Further reading
- Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/nie on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “nietu”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN