nó

From Middle High German noch, from Old High German noh, from Proto-Germanic *nuh (“now and; yet, still”). Cognate with German noch.

nó

1. (Luserna) still, yet (up to and including a given time)

   Balz tondart in aprìle soinda nó hintar noün tang bintar.

   When it thunders in April, there is still nine more days of winter.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Galician-Portuguese noo, from Latin nōdus. Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare English knot and its Germanic cognates.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/

nó m (plural nós)

1. knot (looping of a flexible material)

   Synonyms: lazada, lazo

2. node (a knot, knob, protuberance or swelling)

   Synonym: broulla

3. gnarl
4. knot (whorl left in lumber)
5. knot (unit of speed)
6. hub (point where many routes meet)

• nó da gorxa
• nó gordiano
• noelo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nó”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nó”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nó”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Japanese 能 (nō, literally “ability”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoː]
• Rhymes: -noː

nó (uncountable)

1. Noh, a form of classical Japanese musical drama.

From Old Irish nó, nú, from Proto-Celtic *nowe (compare Welsh neu and Old Breton nou).

• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠoː/^[1]
• (Cork, Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠuː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠɔː/

nó

1. or

nó

1. No meaning of its own; only used in nó go (“until”) and its derivatives.

• nóe

From Old Irish nau, from Proto-Celtic *nāwā, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

nó f (genitive nóe)

1. boat

• Irish: nae

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nó, noe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/

nó

1. no^[1]

Ferreira, Amadeu, Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona (2003–2022) “nó”, in Dicionário de Mirandês-Português [Mirandese-Portuguese Dictionary].

• no, nú, ꝉ

From Proto-Celtic *nowe (compare Welsh neu and Old Breton nou); nowadays derived from Proto-Indo-European *ne-we, from *ne (“not”) +‎ *-we (“or”), literally “or not”.^[1][2] Compare Latin nēve, which was formed identically.

Stokes derives it from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod”), but in a later publication, prefers *nu (“and, now”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /n͈oː/

nó (abbreviated ꝉ)

1. or

• Irish: nó
• Manx: ny
• Scottish Gaelic: no, neo

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 nó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese noo, from Latin nōdus. Doublet of nodo. Compare Spanish nudo, Italian nodo, French nœud.

• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: nó

nó m (plural nós)

1. knot
2. (anatomy) knuckle

   nós dos dedos ― knuckles (literally, “fingers' knuckles”)

3. intersection (junction of two or more paths, etc)

• “nó”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “nó”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Probably originally a variant of nọ (“that yonder”).

For semantic relationship, compare French il, Spanish él (and other reflexes of Latin ille), Macedonian тој (toj), Japanese 彼 (kare), Turkish o.

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

nó • (奴, 伮)

1. (impolite, colloquial) he; him; she; her

   Thằng Tèo đi đâu rồi?
   Chắc nó đi chơi với gái rồi.
   Con Mực đi đâu rồi?
   Chắc nó cũng đi kiếm gái luôn.
   Thế còn con Tũn?
   Nó thì tao chịu.

   Where's Tèo (a boy)?
   He's probably going out with girls.
   Where's Blacky (a dog)?
   He's probably looking for bitches, too.
   What about Tũn (a girl)?
   Dunno about her.

2. (literary, fiction, narratology, disrespectful or familiar) he; him; she; her (used by the author when talking about a young person (especially the protagonist) or a non-human animal)
3. (literary) it
   • 2012, Joe Ruelle, Ngược chiều vun vút [Whooshing toward the Other Way]‎^[2], page 234:

     Ý tôi không phải “phương Đông – phương Tây” là cách phân chia văn hoá vô tác dụng. Bản thân tôi hay nói “người Tây” thích thế nọ, muốn thế kia – đặc biệt khi so sánh với người Việt. Mặc dù không chính xác lắm nhưng cách đó tiết kiệm thời gian cho người viết lẫn người đọc. Nó súc tích, gòn gọn, đẹp mắt, lôgíc.
     Nhưng cũng hơi thiếu.

     I do not mean that the “Eastern – Western” categorization of cultures is invalid. I often find myself saying “Westerners” like this, want that – especially when comparing with Vietnamese people. Albeit not very accurate, that way [of categorization] doesn’t take much of the writers and the readers’ time [to describe and to understand]. It’s concise, succinct, sightly, logical.
     But also a little inadequate.

4. (colloquial) it, used to refer to inanimate objects when accompanied by topic-comment structure

   Cái ghế này nó gãy rồi.

   This chair is broken

   (literally, “This chair, it broke.”)

• The term is used to refer to any animal (including the human) in the third person, in a casual or disrespectful manner. In usual conversation, the use of pronouns such as anh ấy, cô ấy and the likes when referring to one's peer or younger people would probably sound stiff and artificial (as if from reading a translation). When referring to one's superior or older people, the usage of these pronouns is less marked while the use of nó becomes disrespectful.
• The use of the term to translate the English it, or to refer to an inanimate object, in many cases, is rather artificial, and mostly found in awkward (but common) translations of other languages.

• bọn nó; chúng nó; tụi nó (“they; them”)

nó

1. water

• Yaweyuha Organised Phonology Data (2011), page 3