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Italian
Etymology
Blend of no (“no”) + sì (“yes”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈni/
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: nì
Adverb
nì
- (colloquial) yes and no
Anagrams
Mandarin
Romanization
nì (ni4, Zhuyin ㄋㄧˋ)
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- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 惄
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 愵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 慒
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 昵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 晰
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 暱/昵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氼
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濖
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灃/沣
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 睨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 糑
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 縌/𰬳
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胒
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膩/腻
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 衱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷁/鹢
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷊/鹝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鹝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鹢
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish do·gní.
Pronunciation
Verb
nì
- future indicative independent of dèan
Usage notes
Etymology 2
From Old Irish ní (“something, n of nech”) conflated with reanalysis of Old Irish aní (“that which”) as an nì (“the thing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nì m (genitive singular nì, plural nithean or nithe)
- thing
- Synonym: rud
Derived terms
Noun
nì m (genitive singular nith, no plural)
- cattle
- Synonym: crodh
- goods
References
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “nì”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN