nisu

nisu f (plural nisos)

1. plum (fruit)

• cirigüeyu
• ciruela
• ñisu

From Proto-Finnic *nisu. Cognate to Finnish nisu and Livvi nižu.

nisu (genitive nisu, partitive nisu)

1. wheat

• “nisu”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “nisu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “nisu”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• nisu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Proto-Finnic *nisu. Related to nisä, Estonian nisu, Livonian ni’zzõz, Veps ńižu and Votic nisu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnisu/, [ˈnis̠u]
• Rhymes: -isu
• Syllabification^(key): ni‧su

nisu (dialectal)

1. wheat
2. (including American Finnish) something baked of wheat, particularly traditional cardamom sweet bread, such as pulla

• (wheat): vehnä
• (something baked of wheat): nisunen, vehnänen, vehnäleipä

• “nisu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• suin

nisu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ニス

nīsū

1. ablative singular of nīsus

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnisuː/

From Proto-Samic *nisōn.

nisu

1. woman

• nissonolmmoš

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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nisu

1. (often in the plural) wheat

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• (Standard Montenegrin) nijèsu
• (regional, chiefly Serbia) nésu
• (historical, regional) nijésu

From Proto-Slavic *ne + *sǫtь, first-person plural present tense form of *byti. This formation was kept in Old Church Slavonic as не сѫтъ (ne sǫtŭ) (see бꙑти (byti)). However, in other South Slavic vernaculars, this form irregularly later created něsu (attested in 1334), probably influenced by něsam (see nisam). Because of the yat reflex, něsu became rendered as nisu in Ikavian speeches.

• IPA^(key): /nǐːsu/
• Hyphenation: ni‧su

nísu (Cyrillic spelling ни́су)

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

• “nisu” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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From Proto-Finnic *nisu.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈnisu/, [ˈnʲisu]
• Rhymes: -isu
• Hyphenation: ni‧su

nisu

1. wheat

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “nisu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn