See also: Appendix:Variations of "nu"

Faroese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse , from Proto-Germanic *nu (now), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (now).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nʉuː/
  • Rhymes: -ʉuː

Adverb

(not comparable)

  1. now

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse , from Proto-Germanic *nu (now), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (now).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Adverb

  1. now
    Synonym: núna
    • Gunnar Gunnarsson, Fjallkirkjan p. 174
      drekkum við velkomandaminni!
      Now we drink to his/her arrival!
    • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
      Krummi krunkar úti,
      kallar á nafna sinn:
      „Ég fann höfud af hrúti
      hrygg og gæruskinn.“
      Komdu og kroppaðu með mér,
      krummi nafni minn.
      “Krummi croaks outside,
      calling his namesake:
      ‘I found the head of a ram,
      backbone and sheepskin.’
      Come now and peck with me,
      Krummi, my namesake.”

Derived terms

Mandarin

Romanization

(nu2, Zhuyin ㄋㄨˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of  /
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • ᚾᚢ (nu), ᚿᚢ (nu)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nu (now), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (now).

Adverb

(not comparable)

  1. now

Descendants

  • Icelandic: , núna
  • Faroese: , núgv
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: no; (chiefly dialectal)
  • Norwegian Bokmål:
  • Jamtish:
  • Elfdalian:
  • Old Swedish:
    • Swedish: nu
  • Danish: nu
    • Norwegian Bokmål: nu (Riksmål)

Further reading

  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

Portuguese

Adjective

(feminine nua, masculine plural nús, feminine plural nuas)

  1. misspelling of nu