nias

See also: Nias and NIAS

English

Etymology

French niais. See eyas and nyas.

Noun

nias

  1. (obsolete) A young hawk; an eyas.
  2. (obsolete, by extension) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) unsophisticated person.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nias”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Verb

nias

  1. second-person singular past historic of nier

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Swedish

Noun

nias

  1. indefinite genitive singular of nia

Verb

nias

  1. inflection of nia:
    1. passive infinitive
    2. present passive

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