ní

• IPA^(key): [ní]

ní

1. water

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

ní

1. water

• Grace Hensarli, The function of -ki 'switch' in Kogi

• IPA^(key): [ˈɲiː]

ní

1. genitive/dative/locative and instrumental singular of ona

ní

1. live, be alive

• IPA^(key): /n̠ʲiː/

From a reanalysis of Old Irish aní (“that which”) as an ní (“the thing”).

• nídh (dated)

ní m (genitive singular ní, nominative plural nithe)

1. thing

   Synonym: rud

2. object

• neamhní (“nothing”)
• nithiúil

ní

1. which (referring back to a clause) (followed by a relative clause)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:

     Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.

     They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.

From Old Irish nige.

• nighe (obsolete)
• níochán (Cois Fharraige)

ní f (genitive singular nite)

1. verbal noun of nigh
2. washing

ní

1. present subjunctive analytic of nigh

From Old Irish ní.

ní

1. not (preverbal particle)

   Ní thuigim. ― I do not understand.

   Ní dheachaigh mé ansin. ― I did not go there.

   Ní bhfaighidh siad é. ― They will not find it.

2. not (present copular form)

   Ní críonnacht creagaireacht. ― Miserliness is not thrift.

   Ní hionann iad. ― They are not the same.

   An gloine é? Ní hea. ― Is it glass? No.

The preverbal particle triggers lenition of a following consonant. It is not used in the past tense except for some irregular verbs. It takes the dependent form of irregular verbs. The copular form triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel.

• cha (nonstandard)
• níor (used in the past tense with regular and some irregular verbs, also the past/conditional copular form)

From Old Irish do·gní.

• ghní (obsolete)
• níonn

ní

1. (archaic, Ulster) present analytic independent of déan

• "ní" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 ní ‘anything’”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “2 ní ‘a thing’”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “3 ní ‘not’”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “nige”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• “ní ‘not’” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 517.
• “níḋ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 518.
• “niġe” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 519.
• Entries containing “ní” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “ní” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

ní

1. alive

ní (Zhuyin ㄋㄧˊ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 倪
2. Pinyin transcription of 呢
3. Pinyin transcription of 坭
4. Pinyin transcription of 埿
5. Pinyin transcription of 妫
6. Pinyin transcription of 婗
7. Pinyin transcription of 尼
8. Pinyin transcription of 屔
9. Pinyin transcription of 怩
10. Pinyin transcription of 泥
11. Pinyin transcription of 淣
12. Pinyin transcription of 狋
13. Pinyin transcription of 猊
14. Pinyin transcription of 秜
15. Pinyin transcription of 籾
16. Pinyin transcription of 臡
17. Pinyin transcription of 蚭
18. Pinyin transcription of 蜺
19. Pinyin transcription of 觬
20. Pinyin transcription of 貎
21. Pinyin transcription of 跜
22. Pinyin transcription of 輗
23. Pinyin transcription of 郳
24. Pinyin transcription of 鈦
25. Pinyin transcription of 霓
26. Pinyin transcription of 鯓
27. Pinyin transcription of 鯢, 鲵
28. Pinyin transcription of 麑
29. Pinyin transcription of 齯

di- (“oral”) + -Ø- (3rd person subject prefix) + -Ø- (classifier) + -ní (neuter imperfective stem of root -NIID, “to say”).

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ní

1. he/she says

   Dooda, dishní! ― I say no!

This verb is frequently used for quoted speech. To introduce quoted speech, just add the prefix á- (“thus”) to any of the forms of the verb. This modifies the meaning to something like "to say as follows" or "to say thus":

Asdzą́ą́ ání, Beeʼeldííl Dahsinilgóó deekai, ní. — That woman says, “we are going to Albuquerque,” she says.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the imperfective mode. Other modes are suppleted by the active verb niih, reproduced below for convenience.

Paradigm: Neuter imperfective (Ø), with some irregularities.

• ání
• haʼní

From Proto-Celtic *nīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *ne h₁ésti (“is not”) (compare Sanskrit न (na), Latin ne, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni)).

• IPA^(key): /n͈ʲiː/

ní

1. not
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24a38

     Ní epur a n-anman sund.

     I do not say their names here.

   Synonym: nícon

Followed by the dependent form of the verb, which (in Old Irish) is not subjected to nasalization or lenition mutation unless a direct object pronoun is implied. Compare:

• Ní ben inna firu ― He does not strike the men

  Here the b of ben is unmutated.

• Ní mben ― He does not strike him

  Here the b of ben is nasalized to mb.

• Ní ben ― He does not strike it

  Here the b of ben is lenited.

In Middle Irish increasingly, and in Modern Irish always, ní lenites the following verb.

• Irish: ní

ní

1. is not, isn’t
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c29

     Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.

     It is not because of envy towards you that I say this.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 20c25

     Níta chumme-se friusom.

     I am not like them.

ní

1. something, anything
   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102a15

     Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.

     They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

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