nü

nü

1. Nonstandard spelling of nǘ.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nǚ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of nǜ.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): [nɨ]

nü

1. mother
2. mother’s sister, maternal aunt
3. father’s brother’s wife

The possessed forms are irregular: first-person singular maama, second-person singular aanü, third-person singular yeenü, third-person reflexive seenü.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “denɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 69, 73

From Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”).

IPA^(key): /nʏ/

nü

1. (Sylt) now; at the current time

nü

1. you