nyn

nyn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nyankole.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nyankole terms

Compare East Ulster Irish nár (“our”), also standard Irish inár (“in our”), both of which cause eclipsis.

nyn

1. (possessive) our, belonging to us.
2. (possessive) your, belonging to you (plural/formal).
3. (possessive) their, belonging to them.
4. in our/your/their

   Va shin nyn baitçhyn. ― We were children. (literally, “We were in our children.”)

• niȝen, nin, nine, nyen
• niwon (Early Middle English); niȝhenn (Ormulum)
• neghen, neȝen, neyen, neyn, neyne (especially Northern, North Midland)

Inherited from Old English nigon,^[1] from Proto-West Germanic *nigun, variant of *neun, in turn from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːn/, (Early Middle English) /ˈniɣən/
• IPA^(key): (earlier) /nei̯n/, /ˈneːɣən/, (later) /neːn/ (Northern)
• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ̞ːɣən/^[2] (Kent, from Kentish Old English *neogon)

nyn (postpositive nyne, preconsonantal (especially Southern or West Midland) nye)

1. nine

• Like with fyf, the postpositive form is frequently generalised in all contexts.

• nyntene
• nynthe
• nynty

• English: nine

  Ottawa Valley: nein

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

nyn

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.

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nyn

1. to sew
2. to stitch

• nyt, gynyt