nain

See also: näin, nai'n, and ŋăĭn

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English nine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /najn/

Numeral

nain (Bengali script নায়্ন or নাইন)

1. nine

Synonyms

• chykhyw
• no

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

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Finnish

Verb

nain

1. First-person singular indicative present form of naida.
2. First-person singular indicative past form of naida.

Anagrams

• Anni, Nina

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French

Etymology

From Old French nain, from Latin nānus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̃/

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Adjective

nain (feminine singular naine, masculine plural nains, feminine plural naines)

1. dwarf

   Hypernym: petit

   Antonym: géant

Derived terms

• ajonc nain
• bouleau nain
• fourmilier nain
• lancer de nain
• nain de jardin
• planète naine

 

Related terms

• nanifier
• nanisme
• nano-

Noun

nain m (plural nains, feminine naine)

1. dwarf

   Antonym: géant

2. gnome (decorative, in a garden)

Related terms

• nanomaniaque

See also

• pygmée m

Further reading

• “nain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Nina

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Ingrian

Nain.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nainen. Cognates include Finnish nainen and Estonian naine.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Soikkola, Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /nɑi̯n/
  • (Pärspää) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯ne/ (phonemic spelling: naine)
• Hyphenation: nain

Noun

nain (genitive naisen, partitive naista)

1. woman
2. married woman

Declension

Declension of nain (type 1/kärpäin, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	nain	naiset
genitive	naisen	naisiin
partitive	naista naist	naisia
illative	naisee	naisii
inessive	naisees	naisiis
elative	naisest	naisist
allative	naiselle	naisille
adessive	naiseel	naisiil
ablative	naiselt	naisilt
translative	naiseks	naisiks
essive	naisenna naiseen	naisinna naisiin
exessive1)	naisent	naisint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Chernyavskij's declension of nain
	singular	plural
nominative	nain	naizet
genitive	naizen	naisiin
partitive	naista	naissiia
illative	naisee	naisii
inessive	naizeez	naiziiz
elative	naizest	naizist
allative	naizelle	naizille
adessive	naizeel	naiziil
ablative	naizelt	naizilt
translative	naizeks	naiziks
essive	naisseen	naissiin
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

Derived terms

• naisikko

 

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 51
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 334
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)‎^[2], page 134
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 73

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Japanese

Romanization

nain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ナイン

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• nayn

Etymology

From Old French nain, from Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origins.

Noun

nain m (plural nains)

1. dwarf

Descendants

• French: nain

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Old French

Alternative forms

• naim (Thomas d'Angleterre)

Etymology

From Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origins.

Noun

nain m (oblique plural nainz, nominative singular nainz, nominative plural nain)

1. dwarf (mythical being)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     "Nains!", fet ele, "leisse m'aler!
     A cel chevalier vuel parler

     "Dwarf!" Said she "let me pass"
     It's to the knight that I wish to talk

2. midget

Descendants

• Middle French: nain
  • French: nain

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Scots

Etymology 1

From the prothetic n- +‎ ain, from the wrong division of mine ain as my nain.

Adjective

nain (comparative mair nain, superlative maist nain)

1. (Shetland) own

   He was my nain bairn. ― He was my own child.

Synonyms

• ain

Etymology 2

Pronoun

nain

1. Alternative spelling of nane

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English nine.

Numeral

nain

1. nine

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also nainpela.

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Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nainen.

Noun

nain (genitive naizõõ, partitive naissa)

1. woman

Inflection

Declension of nain singular plural nominative nain naizõd genitive naizõõ naisije partitive naissa naisiit illative naisõõ naisiisõ inessive naizõz naiziz elative naizõss naiziss allative naizõlõ naizilõ adessive naizõll naizill ablative naizõlt naizilt translative naizõssi naizissi essive naizõna naisiina comitative naizõka naisijeka terminative naizõlõssa naizilõssa

References

• "nain" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nai̯n/

Noun

nain f (plural neiniau)

1. (North Wales) grandmother

   Synonym: mam-gu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
nain	unchanged	unchanged	nhain△
△Irregular.
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Usage notes

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of nain to nhain. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also mam to mham for a similar example.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies