nü
See also: nue and Appendix:Variations of "nu"
Mandarin
Romanization
nü
- Nonstandard spelling of nǘ.
- Nonstandard spelling of nǚ.
- Nonstandard spelling of nǜ.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nɨ]
Noun
nü
- mother
- mother’s sister, maternal aunt
- father’s brother’s wife
Usage notes
The possessed forms are irregular: first-person singular maama, second-person singular aanü, third-person singular yeenü, third-person reflexive seenü.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “denɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 69, 73
North Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nʏ/
Adverb
nü
- (Sylt) now; at the current time
Yimchungru Naga
Pronoun
nü
- you