noo
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English
Etymology 1
From Old English nū, Middle English nou, in dialects without the shift /uː/ → /aʊ/.
Pronunciation
Adverb
noo (not comparable)
Usage notes
- Often preceded by the definite article: the now.
References
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Interjection
noo
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Adjective
noo
- Pronunciation spelling of new (representing dialects with yod-dropping)
See also
probably unrelated terms containing "noo"
Anagrams
Aiwoo
Noun
noo
- cloud (white; not rainclouds)
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 能 (nō).
Pronunciation
Noun
noo (accusative singular noon, plural nooj, accusative plural noojn)
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *noo, from Proto-Uralic *no. Cognates include Finnish nuo and Karelian nuo.
Pronunciation
Determiner
noo
Pronoun
noo
Usage notes
- Too and noo are deictic: They refer to physical entities. In contrast, se and neet are anaphoric, and thus refer to something that is previously mentioned in the conversation.
Declension
| Declension of noo | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | too | noo |
| genitive | toon | noijen |
| accusative | toon | noo |
| partitive | toota | noota |
| illative | tooho | noohe |
| inessive | toos | noos |
| elative | toost | noost |
| allative | toolle | noolle |
| adessive | tool | nool |
| ablative | toolt | noolt |
| translative | tooks | nooks |
| essive | toonna | noonna |
Derived terms
See also
| Ingrian demonstratives | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| proximal | neutral | distal | |||||
| singular | tämä (tää) | se | too | ||||
| plural | nämät (näät) | neet | noo | ||||
References
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 99
- Arvo Laanest (1966) “Ижорский Язык”, in Финно-Угорские и Самодийские языки (Языки народов СССР), volume 3, Moscow: Наука, page 108
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 347
- Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 13
Rohingya
Noun
noo
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū (“now, at present, at this time, immediately, very recently”), from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
noo (not comparable)
- now
- (definite) just now, right now
- 2006, Cecilia Grainger, Bruised Blue:
- Thurs something noh richt here…Zeb widnae jist up an leave athoot telling me…NAW he’ll be here the noo and send you raggle taggle bunch oan yur wae…aye yull be telt ti follow his commands or CLEAR OFF THIS LAND…!
- There's something not right here…Zeb wouldn't just up and leave without telling me…NO he'll be here just now and send you ragtag bunch on your way…yes you'll be told to follow his commands or CLEAR OFF THIS LAND…!
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, page 406:
- She is in 3rd year, she does no want you, you are no even thirteen.
So? I nearly am.
Aye but ye are no the now.- She is in 3rd year, she wouldn't want you, you are not even thirteen.
So? I'm nearly thirteen.
Right, but you are not right now.
- She is in 3rd year, she wouldn't want you, you are not even thirteen.
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Noun
noó (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂ)
Further reading
- “noo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018