nú
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nu"
Faroese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse nú, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nʉuː/
- Rhymes: -ʉuː
Adverb
nú (not comparable)
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse nú, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Adverb
nú
- now
- Synonym: núna
- Gunnar Gunnarsson, Fjallkirkjan p. 174
- Nú 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 nú 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.”
- “Krummi croaks outside,
Derived terms
Mandarin
Romanization
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伮
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 奴
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孥
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 帆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 挏
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笯
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胬
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒘
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 駑 / 驽
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鴑
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- ᚾᚢ (nu), ᚿᚢ (nu)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Adverb
nú (not comparable)
Descendants
- Icelandic: nú, núna
- Faroese: nú, núgv
- Norwegian Nynorsk: no; (chiefly dialectal) nå
- Norwegian Bokmål: nå
- Jamtish: nú
- Elfdalian: nų
- Old Swedish: nū
- 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
nú (feminine nua, masculine plural nús, feminine plural nuas)
- misspelling of nu