nigon

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English

Alternative forms

Noun

nigon (plural nigons)

  1. (obsolete) Niggard, miser.

Anagrams

Old English

Old English numbers (edit)
90
 ←  8 9 10  → 
    Cardinal: nigon
    Ordinal: nigoþa
    Multiplier: nigonfeald

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *nigun, an unexplained variant of *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

Numeral

nigon

  1. nine
    Nigon sīðum nigon bēoþ ān and hundeahtatiġ.
    Nine times nine is eighty-one.

Descendants

Welsh

Pronunciation

Adverb

nigon

  1. Nasal mutation of digon (“enough”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
digon ddigon nigon unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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