ню

Old Church Slavonic

Pronoun

ню • (nju) (Old East Church Slavonic)

  1. Prepositional form of ю (ju)
    • 1581, “Matthew 9:18”, in Ostrog Bible:
      дщи моа ныне умретъ.но пришедъ възложи на ню руку свою , и оживетъ·
      dšti moa nyne umretŭ.no prišedŭ vŭzloži na nju ruku svoju , i oživetŭ·
      My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live

Russian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [nʲu]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French nu.

Noun

ню • (nju) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. (art) nude

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῦ (nû).

Noun

ню • (nju) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. nu (the Greek letter Ν/ν)
    Synonym: (modern Greek) ни (ni)

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *ńuə.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [nʲʉː]
  • Hyphenation: ню

Noun

ню̄ • (nyū)

  1. child, offspring

Derived terms

References
  • Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, pages 68, 278
  • N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “ню”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
  • Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 33
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