ní

• IPA^(key): [ní]

ní

1. water

• Bassa-English Dictionary
• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

ní

1. water

• Grace Hensarli, The function of -ki 'switch' in Kogi

• IPA^(key): [ˈɲiː]

ní

1. genitive/dative/locative and instrumental singular of ona

ní

1. live, be alive

• IPA^(key): /n̠ʲiː/

From Old Irish ní (“something”, n of nech) conflated with a reanalysis of Old Irish aní (“that which”) as an ní (“the thing”).[1][2]

• nídh (dated)[3]

ní m (genitive singular ní, nominative plural nithe or neathanna)

1. thing

   Synonym: rud

2. object

Alternative plural: neathanna

• neamhní (“nothing”)
• nithiúil

ní

1. which (referring back to a clause) (followed by a relative clause)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:

     Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.

     They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.

From Old Irish nige.[4]

• nighe (obsolete)[5]
• níochán (Cois Fharraige)

ní f (genitive singular nite)

1. verbal noun of nigh
2. washing

ní

1. analytic present subjunctive of nigh

From Old Irish ní.[6]

• cha (Ulster)
• níor (used in the past tense with regular and some irregular verbs, also the past/conditional copular form)

ní[7]

1. not (preverbal particle)

   Ní thuigim. ― I do not understand.

   Ní dheachaigh mé ansin. ― I did not go there.

   Ní bhfaighidh siad é. ― They will not find it.

2. not (present copular form)

   Ní críonnacht creagaireacht. ― Miserliness is not thrift.

   Ní hionann iad. ― They are not the same.

   An gloine é? Ní hea. ― Is it glass? No.

The preverbal particle triggers lenition of a following consonant. It is not used in the past tense except for some irregular verbs. It takes the dependent form of irregular verbs. The copular form triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel.

ní

1. Alternative spelling of ghní

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ní”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “ní” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “ní” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

ní

1. alive

• ni — nonstandard

ní (ni², Zhuyin ㄋㄧˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倪
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呢
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坭
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埿
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妫
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 婗
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 尼
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屔
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怩
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泥
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淣
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狋
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 猊
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秜
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籾
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臡／𰯋
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚭
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蜺
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 觬
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貎
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 跜
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 輗／𫐐
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郳
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈦／钛
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霓
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯓
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯢／鲵
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麑
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 齯／𫠜

• IPA^(key): /n͈ʲiː/

From Old Irish ní, from Proto-Celtic *nīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *ne h₁ésti (“is not”) (compare Sanskrit न (na), Latin ne, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni)).

ní

1. not
   • c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 15, page 2: “Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill. ― If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.”

• Irish: ní

ní

1. is not, isn’t

ní

1. something, anything
   • c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 15, page 2: “Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill. ― If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.”

di- (“oral”) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ní (neuter imperfective stem of root -NIID, “to say”).

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ní

1. he/she says

   Dooda, dishní! ― I say no!

This verb is frequently used for quoted speech. To introduce quoted speech, just add the prefix á- (“thus”) to any of the forms of the verb. This modifies the meaning to something like "to say as follows" or "to say thus":

Asdzą́ą́ ání, Beeʼeldííl Dahsinilgóó deekai, ní. — That woman says, “we are going to Albuquerque,” she says.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the imperfective mode. Other modes are suppleted by the active verb niih, reproduced below for convenience.

Paradigm: Neuter imperfective (∅), with some irregularities.

• ání
• haʼní

• IPA^(key): [n͈ʲiː]

From Proto-Celtic *nīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *ne h₁ésti (“is not”) (compare Sanskrit न (na), Latin ne, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni)).

ní

1. not

   Synonym: nícon

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24^a38

     Ní epur a n-anman sund.

     I do not say their names here.

Followed by the dependent form of the verb, which (in Old Irish) is not subjected to nasalization or lenition mutation unless a direct object pronoun is implied. Compare:

• Ní ben inna firu ― He does not strike the men

  Here the b of ben is unmutated.

• Ní mben ― He does not strike him

  Here the b of ben is nasalized to mb.

• Ní ben ― He does not strike it

  Here the b of ben is lenited.

In Middle Irish increasingly, and in Modern Irish always, ní lenites the following verb.

• Middle Irish: ní
  • Irish: ní

ní

1. is not, isn’t
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c29

     Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.

     It is not because of envy towards you that I say this.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 20^c25

     Níta chumme-se friusom.

     I am not like them.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^d23

     Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.

     Though he may go into a higher place, he is not the higher; this is not the case for us, for we are the higher through going into the high places.

See relevant rows at Appendix:Old Irish conjugation of is.

ní

1. something, anything; some, any [+ di (object) = of]
2. (in a negative clause) nothing

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ní.

• níi

• na ní

• IPA^(key): /ni˥/

ní

1. two.

• shòní