nai

Initialism of English North American Indian.

nai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for North American Indian languages.

Borrowed from Hindi नाई (nāī).

nai (plural nais)

1. (India) barber.

Borrowed from Romanian nai.

nai (plural nais)

1. (music) A Romanian diatonic pan flute used since the 17th century.

• muscal

• Ian, INA, AIN, Ani, Nia, Ain, NIA, ani, ain', ANI, Ina, -ian, nia, ain

• IPA^(key): [nai]

nai

1. to plant

• Leenhardt, M. (1935), Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• nae

nai f (plural nãi)

1. region, province, county

From Latin nāvis. Compare archaic Romanian naie.

• nae

nai f (plural nãi)

1. vessel, boat (especially with sails)

• cãravi, catrig, lãndurã, luntri, ghimii

nai

1. the most

From Latin nix, nivem. Compare Romanian nea, Italian neve, Romansh naiv, Catalan neu.

nai f

1. snow

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯/, [ˈnɑ̝i̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Syllabification^(key): nai
• Hyphenation^(key): nai

nai

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯ˣ/, [ˈnɑ̝i̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Syllabification^(key): nai
• Hyphenation^(key): nai

nai

1. inflection of naida:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• ain, ani

• mai

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, influenced by the archaic nana (“mother”),^[1] from Latin mater. Cognate of Portuguese mãe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaj/ [ˈna̠j]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: nai

nai f (plural nais)

1. mother
   • 2016, Xurxo Sierra Veloso, Os fíos, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN:

     Apuntamentos para axenda mental de hoxe: rifa coa miña nai. A ver por que lle ten que ir contando ela a ninguén que precisei psiquiatra despois da miña separación?

     Appointment in today's TODO mental schedule: arguing with my mother. Why she has to go around telling anyone that I needed a psychiatrist after my separation?

• naiciña (hypocoristic)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mãy”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nai”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nai”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nai”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Gullah numbers ^(edit)

←  3	4	5  →
African Cardinal: nai     American Cardinal: foe     Ordinal: foe     Adverbial: fuh fo     Multiplier: fo-time     Collective: allfo

From Fula nai.

• IPA^(key): /nɑi/

nai

1. fourth

nai

1. four

   Synonym: foe

• Gullah communicates both the number and its ordinal adjective in the same word.

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

nai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ない

From Proto-Finnic *nainën.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi/, [ˈnɑ̯iˑ]

nai

1. woman
2. wife

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “nai”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

nai

1. two

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

nai

1. nonstandard spelling of nái
2. nonstandard spelling of nǎi
3. nonstandard spelling of nài

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• naie, nei, næi

Borrowed from Old Norse nei.

• IPA^(key): /næi̯/

nai

1. no

nai (plural nais)

1. denial, refusal

nai

1. no, not

• English: nay
• Yola: naay, na

• “nai, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “nai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “nai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnai̯]
• Hyphenation: nai

nai

1. this, that (anaphoric, specific)

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 185
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 161

nai

1. bad

• “nai” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

From Proto-Germanic *niwjaz.

nai

1. (Mooring) new

• nei (Föhr-Amrum)
• nii (Sylt)

From Old Frisian nēi, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw (“close, near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz (“close, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to attain, reach”).

nai

1. (Föhr-Amrum) close, near

• noi (Goesharde)
• näi (Wiedingharde)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نای (nay), from Persian نی (ney).

nai n (plural naiuri)

1. a type of pan flute

• → English: nai

• fluier

From Old Frisian nēi, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw (“close, near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz (“close, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to attain, reach”).

nai

1. close, near

• Nai Aaste

• IPA^(key): /nai/

nai

1. water

Borrowed from Dutch naaien.

• IPA^(key): /nai̯/

nai

1. to sew

• nanai

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [naːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [naːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [naːj˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *k-ɗeː. Cognate with Muong đai and Arem kadeː.

• (North Central Vietnam) nây

(classifier con) nai • (狔, 猍, 󰶀, 𬸼)

1. sambar deer
2. (by extension) any species of deer

• hươu; cheo; mang; hoẵng

Unknown. Perhaps from the "confused" look that deer in general exhibit. Perhaps popularized by the lines that describe "a confused deer walking on autumn leaves" from the poem Tiếng thu (“Sounds of Autumn”) by Lưu Trọng Lư, and subsequently the pop song Mắt nai cha cha cha (“Cha-Cha-Cha Deer Eyes”) which describes the innocence of young girls.

nai

1. (informal) innocent; naive

   giả nai

   to act innocent; to act dumb; to feign ignorance

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier cái) nai • (坭, 󰑴)

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) kind of bottle for storing wine

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

nai • (抳)

1. to tighten; to strap

• nia

From Middle Welsh nei, from Proto-Brythonic *nei, from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

• IPA^(key): /nai̯/

nai m (plural neiaint, not mutable)

1. nephew

• neigarwch

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