niste

See also: niște

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈnɪstə/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

niste

  1. inflection of nisten:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Middle English

Contraction

niste

  1. ne wiste; did not know
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue.
      So dronk he was he niste what he wrought.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for niste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse nesti.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²nɪstə/

Noun

niste f (definite singular nista, indefinite plural nister, definite plural nistene)

  1. food that is brought along to eat at school, at work, on a trip, etc., a packed lunch
    Me tok med brødskiver med ost og eit par appelsiner til niste.
    We brought with us cheese sandwiches and a couple of oranges for niste.

References

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne + *este, second-person plural present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesmъ in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něste (attested in the 14th century). Because of the yat reflex, něste became rendered as niste in Ikavian speeches.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nǐːste/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ste

Verb

níste (Cyrillic spelling ни́сте)

  1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia) negative second-person plural present of biti

References
  • “niste” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606

Slovene

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nìːstɛ/

Verb

níste

  1. negative second-person plural present of bíti
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