niz

From Proto-West Germanic *hnitu, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱ(o)nid-.

niz f

1. nit

• German: Nisse

Borrowed from German or Alemannic German, from a word derived from or related to Proto-Germanic *nutjō.

• IPA^(key): [nits]

niz m

1. use

Cognate with Zoogocho Zapotec yez.

niz

1. corncob

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 16

From Proto-Slavic *nizъ, from Proto-Indo-European *nei-ǵʰ-? (Derksen) or *ni- (“down”).

• (noun) IPA^(key): /nîːz/
• (preposition) IPA^(key): /nîz/

nȉz (Cyrillic spelling ни̏з) (+ accusative case)

1. down, along (in a constant direction with or opposite another; = dȕž, ȕzdūž, pȍkraj)

   niz obalu ― down/along the shore

   niz ulicu ― down the street

   sići/silaziti niz stepenice ― to go downstairs

   ići niz vodu ― to go downstream

nȋz m (Cyrillic spelling ни̑з)

1. array, sequence, series
2. row
3. string
4. large number of, host of, a number of (+ genitive case)
5. (mathematics) series, progression

niz

1. Alternative form of nize

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 59