nain

Borrowed from Welsh nain (“grandmother”).^[1]

nain (plural nains)

1. (North Wales) A grandmother.

   Synonym: mamgu (Southern)

   Coordinate term: taid

   • 2015 July 15, Lorna Doran, “The best places for kids to eat in Wales - as recommended by YOU”, in WalesOnline‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2018:

     Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.

• Inna, inna, nani, Nian, NINA, Nina, nina

From English nine.

• IPA^(key): /najn/

nain (Bengali script নায়্ন or নাইন)

1. nine

• chykhyw
• no

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

• IPA^(key): /nai̯n/ [nãĩ̯n]
• Rhymes: -ai̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. Feminine allocutive form of nau.

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

nain

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of naida

• Anni, Nina

Inherited from Old French nain, from Latin nānus.

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̃/

• Audio:

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nain (feminine naine, masculine plural nains, feminine plural naines)

1. dwarf

   Antonym: géant

   Hypernym: petit

• nanifier
• nanisme
• nano-

nain m (plural nains, feminine naine)

1. dwarf

   Antonym: géant

2. gnome (decorative, in a garden)

• nanomaniaque

• pygmée m

• “nain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Nina

From Proto-Finnic *nainën, equivalent to naija (“to marry”) +‎ -in. Cognates include Finnish nainen and Estonian naine.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯ne/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. woman
2. wife

Declension of nain (type 1/kärpäin, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	nain	naiset
genitive	naisen	naisiin
partitive	naista, naist	naisia
illative	naisee	naisii
inessive	naisees	naisiis
elative	naisest	naisist
allative	naiselle	naisille
adessive	naiseel	naisiil
ablative	naiselt	naisilt
translative	naiseks	naisiks
essive	naisenna, naiseen	naisinna, naisiin
exessive1)	naisent	naisint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (wife): naisikko

• (woman): mees (“man”)
• (wife): mees (“husband”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. inflection of naija:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular past indicative

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “найне”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 51
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 334
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 73

nain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ナイン

• nayn

From Old French nain, from Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origins.

nain m (plural nains)

1. dwarf

• French: nain

• naim (Thomas d'Angleterre)

From Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origin.

nain oblique singular, m (oblique plural nainz, nominative singular nainz, nominative plural nain)

1. dwarf (mythical being)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     "Nains!", fet ele, "leisse m'aler!
     A cel chevalier vuel parler

     "Dwarf!" Said she "let me pass"
     It's to the knight that I wish to talk

2. midget

• Middle French: nain
  • French: nain

From the prothetic n- +‎ ain, from the wrong division of mine ain as my nain.^[1]

nain (comparative mair nain, superlative maist nain)

1. (Shetland) own

   He was my nain bairn. ― He was my own child.

• ain

nain

1. alternative spelling of nane

Tok Pisin numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nain

From English nine.

nain

1. nine

Used when counting; see also nainpela.

From Proto-Finnic *nainën.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. woman
2. wife

Declension of nain (type XII/sinin, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	nain	naizõd
genitive	naizõ	naisiijõ, naisii
partitive	naissõ	naisiitõ, naisii
illative	naisõ, naisõsõ	naisiisõ
inessive	naizõz	naisiiz
elative	naizõssõ	naisiissõ
allative	naizõlõ	naisiilõ
adessive	naizõllõ	naisiillõ
ablative	naizõltõ	naisiiltõ
translative	naizõssi	naisiissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

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

From Proto-Brythonic *nanī, from Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”), probably from a Proto-Indo-European root imitative of a child speaking, similar to Ancient Greek νάννα (nánna).

• IPA^(key): /nai̯n/
• Rhymes: -ai̯n

nain f (plural neiniau)

1. (North Wales) grandmother

   Synonym: mam-gu

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of nain to nhain. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also mam to mham for a similar example.

• tad-cu (“grandfather”)
• taid (“grandfather”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies