nia

Cognate to Penobscot nis (“I”).

nia

1. I (the singular first person pronoun)

• Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
• John Dyneley Prince, The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects, in the American Anthropologist, volume 4 (1902)

nia

1. (anatomy) eye

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• IPA^(key): /ˈnia/
• Hyphenation: ni‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

nia (plural niaj, accusative singular nian, accusative plural niajn)

1. our

nia

1. third-person singular past historic of nier

• n'ai

nia

1. our

From Old Irish nïa, from Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (napā), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

• IPA^(key): /n̠ʲiə/

nia m (genitive singular nia, nominative plural nianna)

1. nephew

• (gender): neacht
• (age): uncail
• (gender, age): aint, aintín

• "nia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “2 nia, niae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

nia

1. no, not (after a negative) any

nia

1. nothing, anything
2. at all

nia

1. water
   • 1999, Bibliografía peruana, page 140:

     Ogari nia onti pairo okametiti = El agua es muy buena : libro n.o 7; machiguenga con traducción al castellano.

• Pueblos del Perú (2006)

• niae

From Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (napā), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈ʲi.a/

nïa m (genitive nïad or nïeth, nominative plural nïaid)

1. nephew, sister’s son

• Irish: nia
• Manx: neear

• “2 nia, niae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Cognate to Abenaki nis (“I”).

nia

1. I (the singular first person pronoun)

• 1902, J. Dyneley Prince, The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects, in the American Anthropologist, volume 4
• 1918, Frank G. Speck, Newell Lion, Penobscot Transformer Tales, in the International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 1, number 3 (August 1918)

nia

1. water

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Donald C. Laycock, Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell (1970), page 1260: The Suki word for water, nia, has certainly been borrowed from languages in the Mai Kussa-Pahoturi area (Warubi, Mikud, Agob) where it is widespread. From suki it will have found its way into Zimakani (neia).

From Arabic نِيَّة‎ (niyya).

nia (n class, plural nia)

1. intention

-nia (infinitive kunia)

1. to decide, intend, resolve

From the digit nio (“nine”)

nia c

1. nine; the digit "9"
2. ninth-grader; pupil in the ninth and last year of compulsory school
3. a class of ninth-graders
4. (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) the ninth year in school

   De barnen går i nian.

   Those children are in ninth grade.

5. a person who finish a competition as number nine

• nolla, etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva

From ni (“you”) +‎ -a, a common way of forming verbs in Swedish. First attested in 1731.[1]

nia

1. to address someone with ni (rather than du) as a sign of respect or deference

The term nia has varied considerably over time and location. After the 1960s and 1970s, the word du has in Sweden been used almost exclusively as second person personal pronoun, with a slight change in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when, for example, staff in restaurants and shops began to use ni towards the customers. Before the 1960s, however, there was a difference in use between Sweden and Finland: in both cases du was mainly used within family, among close friends, and when speaking to children. In Sweden, people with higher social statuses usually were addressed with surname and/or title, or if those were unknown, by reconstructing the sentence to use the passive voice or by using herr (Mr.), fru (Mrs.), or fröken (Miss), whereas people with lower statuses were addressed using ni. In Finland, the difference in status was not as commonly taken into account, and instead ni was used as the polite choice of pronoun regardless of social status.

• dua

Compare Tawasa néăh (“woman”).

nia

1. woman

• Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, →ISBN