nia

nia

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nias.

From Hokkien 爾／尔 (niā, “only”).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /nia(ː)˨/

nia

1. (Singlish) Used to downplay the intensity of something that has been overestimated. Might indicate a slight belittling tone.

   Don't so kiam siap can anot? That one only five cents nia. ― Come on, don't be so stingy. That costs only five cents.

• -ian, ANI, Ain, Ani, INA, Ian, Ina, ain', ani, nai

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, page 58
• John Dyneley Prince (1902), “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, page 28 of 17–32

• nej (Northern Bavarian)

Cognate with German nie.

• IPA^(key): (Central) /niɐ̯/

nia

1. never

nia

1. (anatomy) eye

ni +‎ -a

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

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

1. our

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nia

1. third-person singular past historic of nier

• n'ai

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nia (transitive)

1. look at, watch, test, try

nia

1. our

From Hokkien 領／领 (niá, “collar”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnia̯]
• Hyphenation: nia

nia (first-person possessive niaku, second-person possessive niamu, third-person possessive nianya)

1. (dialect) collar.

   Synonym: kerah

• “nia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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 (n-p-a /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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “nia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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)

nia

1. Nonstandard spelling of niā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of niá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of niǎ.

• 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.

• 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 (n-p-a /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

• (gender): necht

• Irish: nia
• Manx: neear

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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).

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nia (n class, plural nia)

1. intention
2. purpose

-nia (infinitive kunia)

1. to decide, intend, resolve