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
3. 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.

     (literally, “(…), a thing that was not surprising.”)

Alternative plural: neathanna

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.

In Kerry (at least, perhaps other dialects as well), /ɣ/ or /j/ is inserted between ní and a verb form beginning with a back or front vowel, respectively (including cases where the verb form begins with a vowel due to the lenition of f to silent fh). This can be represented by dh’ in dialectal texts, but it is not the past-tense marker do, as it used in other tenses:^[8][9]

• ní dh’aithníonn sí é (“she does not recognize him”) /nʲiː ɣanʲˈhiːnʲ ʃiː eː/ (standard: ní aithníonn sí é)
• ní dh’fhiafraíodar in aon chor de an raibh Gaelainn aige. (“they didn’t ask at all whether he spoke Irish”) /nʲiː jiəɾˠˈhiːd̪ˠəɾˠ ɪˈnʲeːxəɾˠ d̪ˠon ɾˠevʲ ˈɡeːlɪnʲ ɪˈɟe/ (standard: ní fhiafraíodar in aon chor de an raibh Gaeilge aige.

ní

1. alternative spelling of ghní

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ní”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ní”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ní”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

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 author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 15:

     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 author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 15:

     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”).

• IPA^(key): /nɪ́/

• Audio:

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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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ní.

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
• Ní creti a scél ― He does not believe the story

  Here the b of ben and the c of creti are unmutated.

• Ní mben ― He does not strike him
• Ní creti ― He does not believe him

  Here the b of ben and the c of creti are nasalized to mb and /ɡ/ respectively.

• Ní ben ― He does not strike it
• Ní chreti ― He does not believe it

  Here the b of ben and the c of creti are lenited to /β/ and ch respectively.

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ní.

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

ní

1. something, anything; some, any [with di ‘of’]
2. (in a negative clause) nothing

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ní.

Case	Animate	Neuter
Nominative	nech	ní
Accusative	nech
Genitive	neich
Dative	neuch, neoch

• níi

• na ní

• IPA^(key): /ni˥/

ní

1. two.

• shòní

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably from Cantonese?”)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ni˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɪj˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɪj˦˥]

ní

1. (informal) you

   Synonyms: bạn, mày, mi