nipin napin

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

A rhyming phrase. The first word is perhaps from nippa, nipukka, nipistää, while the second may be from the first or from dialectal nappi (“scarce, scanty; narrow”), from Swedish knapp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnipin ˈnɑpin/, [ˈnipin ˈnɑ̝pin]

Adverb

nipin napin

  1. barely (by a small margin, almost not at all)

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