нить

See also: nit, nịt, nît, niť, -nit, and нит

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nī́ˀtis.

Noun

нить • (nitĭ) f

  1. thread

Declension

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nī́ˀtis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈnitɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈnʲitʲɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈnʲitʲ/
  • Hyphenation: ни‧ть

Noun

нить (nitĭ) f

  1. thread

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: ніць (nicʹ)
  • Russian: нить (nitʹ)
    • Dolgan: нитнит
  • Ukrainian: нить (nytʹ), ни́тка (nýtka)
  • Estonian: niit
  • Ingrian: niitti

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “нить”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 454
  • Shmelev, D. N., editor (1986), “нить”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), numbers 11 (не – нѫ), Moscow: Nauka, page 384

Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic нить (nitĭ), from Proto-Slavic *nitь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nī́ˀtis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nʲitʲ]
  • (file)

Noun

нить • (nitʹ) f inan (genitive ни́ти, nominative plural ни́ти, genitive plural ни́тей, relational adjective ни́тяный, diminutive ни́точка)

  1. thread
  2. filament
  3. suture
  4. topic

Declension

  • нитеви́дный (nitevídnyj)
  • нитяно́й (nitjanój)
  • ни́точный (nítočnyj)
  • ни́тка f (nítka)
  • нитча́тка f (nitčátka)

Descendants

  • Dolgan: нитнит

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Old Ukrainian нить (nitʹ), from Old East Slavic нить (nitĭ), from Proto-Slavic *nitь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nī́ˀtis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nɪtʲ]
  • (file)

Noun

нить • (nytʹ) f inan (genitive ни́ті, nominative plural ни́ті, genitive plural ни́тей)

  1. (poetic) thread
    Synonym: ни́тка (nýtka)

Declension

Further reading

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