nyne

From Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

nyne

1. nine
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor, page 389:

     Prosequebatur delude Athe, nyne, thiine, thiinita, thunetua, thunetria etc.

     He then went on: Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen etc.

• nine, nin, niȝen, neghen, neyen, nyen, niwon, niȝhenn

From inflected forms of Old English nigon, from Proto-West Germanic *nigun, variant of *neun, in turn from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːn(ə)/, /ˈneː(ə)n(ə)/
• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈniɣən/

nyne

1. nine

• nynthe
• nynetene
• nynty

• English: nine
• Scots: nine, neen, nyn, nyne
• Yola: neen

nyne

1. alternative form of nine

• “nyn, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 4 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.