nima

nima

1. house

nima

1. five

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

nima

1. (Banawá) to appear as

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʲima/

nima (only after a preposition)

1. dative/instrumental/locative dual of wón

• (dative): jima

nima

1. feminine nominative singular of nimy

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈɲima/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈɲima/

nima

1. dual dative/instrumental of ona／oně

• nema

From Proto-West Germanic *neman. Compare Old English niman, Old Saxon niman, Old High German neman, Old Norse nema.

nima

1. to take

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: nem

  Mooring: naame

• Saterland Frisian: níeme
• West Frisian: nimme

• nimma

From Old Norse nema, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną.

nima

1. to take
2. to learn

• Swedish: nimma, (förnimma)

From Proto-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Oceanic *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

• IPA^(key): /ni.ma/

nima

1. five

nima

1. hand

   Pamphlets in the Tonga language, "Koe Hisitolia o Natula", page 58:

   Oku faa vahe ae kalasi huhu kihe faahiga e hiva, o behe:—

   1. Koe manu nima ua (Bimana)

   There are nine things like parts called the classes which have breasts, like so:—

   1. The animals with two hands (Bimana)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

nima

1. silt, sludge

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “ил”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

nima

1. genitive singular of nim

nima

1. house

• Jeremy Hammond (2009). The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu, p. 101.