See -nu on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "See -nut.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-ny",
"tags": [
"front-vowel"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "{{{stem}}}"
},
"expansion": "{{{stem}}}",
"name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "{{{stem2}}}"
},
"expansion": "{{{stem2}}}",
"name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ny"
},
"expansion": "nU",
"name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"10": "-{{{stem}}}-",
"11": "",
"12": "-{{{stem2}}}-",
"13": "linguistic notation",
"14": "-nU",
"15": "",
"16": "{{{comp}}}",
"17": "",
"18": "{{{sup}}}",
"2": "suffixes",
"3": "front vowel harmony variant",
"4": "-ny",
"5": "",
"6": "-{{{stem}}}-",
"7": "",
"8": "-{{{stem2}}}-",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"f2nolink": "1",
"f3nolink": "1",
"f4nolink": "1",
"f5nolink": "1",
"f6nolink": "1",
"f7nolink": "1",
"f8nolink": "1",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "-nu (front vowel harmony variant -ny, linguistic notation -nU)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "inflectional",
"var": "ny"
},
"expansion": "-nu (front vowel harmony variant -ny, linguistic notation -nU)",
"name": "fi-suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "colloquial",
"3": "dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(colloquial, dialectal)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "-nut"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of -nut"
],
"id": "en--nu-fi-suffix-t~chsUD4",
"links": [
[
"-nut",
"-nut#Finnish"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"colloquial",
"dialectal",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fon",
"2": "-nù"
},
"expansion": "Fon -nù",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognates include Fon -nù",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-nù",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "guw",
"2": "suffix",
"head": "-nù"
},
"expansion": "-nù",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Gun",
"lang_code": "guw",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Gun entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"word": "Ayɔ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"word": "Ayọ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "someone from Dahomey",
"translation": "someone from Dahomey",
"word": "Dànhòmẹ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "someone from Dahomey",
"translation": "someone from Dahomey",
"word": "Dànxòmɛ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "Fon person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Fon person/ethnicity",
"word": "Fọ̀nnù"
},
{
"english": "Gun person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Gun person/ethnicity",
"word": "Gunnù"
},
{
"english": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"word": "Whlànù"
},
{
"english": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"word": "Xwlànù"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Xwlà (“Xwla”) → Xwlànù (“Xwla person/ethnic group”, literally “person/people of Xwla origin”)"
},
{
"text": "Ayɔ̀ (“Yoruba”) → Ayɔ̀nù (“Yoruba person/ethnic group”, literally “person/people of Yoruba origin”)"
},
{
"text": "Fɔ̀n (“Fon”) → Fɔ̀nnù (“Fon person/ethnic group”, literally “person/people of Fon origin”)"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to form nouns describing the origin of a person or group of a certain ethnic group or nationality."
],
"id": "en--nu-guw-suffix-ts2rrhKV",
"links": [
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"group",
"group"
],
[
"ethnic group",
"ethnic group"
],
[
"nationality",
"nationality"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "-tɔ́"
},
{
"word": "-tọ́"
},
{
"word": "-ví"
}
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nũ̀/"
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "romanization",
"head": "",
"sc": "Latn"
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "ja-rom"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "romanization",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "ぬ"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese romanizations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Rōmaji transcription of ぬ"
],
"id": "en--nu-ja-romanization-2Q9j54cA",
"links": [
[
"Rōmaji",
"romaji"
],
[
"ぬ",
"ぬ#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"Rōmaji",
"alt-of",
"romanization"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "-nnu",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mak",
"2": "suffix",
"3": "possessive suffix",
"4": "",
"5": "Lontara spelling",
"6": "ᨊᨘ"
},
"expansion": "-nu (possessive suffix, Lontara spelling ᨊᨘ)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Makasar",
"lang_code": "mak",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Makasar entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Makasar pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"your (familiar second person singular and plural)"
],
"id": "en--nu-mak-suffix-fY93bSP2",
"links": [
[
"your",
"your"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "nakke"
},
{
"word": "-a'"
},
{
"word": "ku-"
},
{
"word": "-ku"
},
{
"word": "kambe"
},
{
"word": "-kang"
},
{
"word": "ki-"
},
{
"word": "-mang"
},
{
"word": "katte"
},
{
"word": "-ki'"
},
{
"word": "-ta"
},
{
"word": "kau"
},
{
"word": "-ko"
},
{
"word": "nu-"
},
{
"word": "ia"
},
{
"word": "-i"
},
{
"word": "na-"
},
{
"word": "-na"
}
],
"tags": [
"morpheme",
"possessive",
"suffix"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[nu]"
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "suffix form"
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "-en"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of -en:",
"strong nominative feminine singular"
],
"id": "en--nu-ang-suffix-YF81ZFPJ",
"links": [
[
"-en",
"-en#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"morpheme",
"nominative",
"singular",
"strong"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "43 57",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "-en"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of -en:",
"strong nominative/accusative neuter plural"
],
"id": "en--nu-ang-suffix-kuftlWLg",
"links": [
[
"-en",
"-en#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"morpheme",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural",
"strong"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nu/"
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vep",
"2": "urj-fin-pro",
"3": "*-nut"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Finnic *-nut",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Finnic *-nut.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "vep-decl-kolnu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "-nu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuded",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuded",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuziden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nut",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"essive-instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzin",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"essive-instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudeks",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzikš",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudes",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuziš",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudespäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzišpäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudehe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzihe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudel",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzil",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudelpäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzilpäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudele",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzile",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudeta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudenke",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidenke",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nutme",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"prolative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidme",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"prolative"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudenno",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-i",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidenno",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-i",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudennoks",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-ii",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidennoks",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-ii",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudennopäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"egressive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidennopäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"egressive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudehesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative",
"terminative-i"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzihesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative",
"terminative-i"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudelesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative",
"terminative-ii"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzilesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative",
"terminative-ii"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudessai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative",
"terminative-iii"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative",
"terminative-iii"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudehepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-i",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzihepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-i",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudelepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-ii",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzilepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-ii",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vep",
"2": "suffixes",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "kaikiš",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"cat2": "adjective-forming suffixes",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"suff": "1"
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "vep-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "vep-decl-kolnu"
}
],
"lang": "Veps",
"lang_code": "vep",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Veps entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Veps kolnu-type nominals",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"-ed; forms the past active participle of verbs."
],
"id": "en--nu-vep-suffix-vJV5~EQE",
"links": [
[
"-ed",
"-ed"
]
],
"qualifier": "having",
"raw_glosses": [
"(having) -ed; forms the past active participle of verbs."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-zu",
"word": "ず"
}
],
"lang": "Old Japanese",
"lang_code": "ojp",
"roman": "nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-zu",
"word": "ず"
}
],
"lang": "Old Japanese",
"lang_code": "ojp",
"roman": "-zu",
"word": "ず"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Kikai",
"lang_code": "kzg",
"roman": "-nēn",
"word": "ねーん"
},
{
"lang": "Kikai",
"lang_code": "kzg",
"roman": "-nēran",
"word": "ねーらん"
},
{
"lang": "Kunigami",
"lang_code": "xug",
"roman": "-nē",
"word": "ねー"
},
{
"lang": "Kunigami",
"lang_code": "xug",
"roman": "-nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Northern Amami Ōshima",
"lang_code": "ryn",
"roman": "-nen",
"word": "ねん"
},
{
"lang": "Okinawan",
"lang_code": "ryu",
"roman": "-nēn",
"word": "ねーん"
},
{
"lang": "Okinoerabu",
"lang_code": "okn",
"roman": "-n",
"word": "ん"
},
{
"lang": "Southern Amami Ōshima",
"lang_code": "ams",
"roman": "-nem",
"word": "ねむっ"
},
{
"lang": "Southern Amami Ōshima",
"lang_code": "ams",
"roman": "-nēm",
"word": "ねーむっ"
},
{
"lang": "Yoron",
"lang_code": "yox",
"roman": "-nen",
"word": "ねん"
},
{
"lang": "Yoron",
"lang_code": "yox",
"roman": "-nennu",
"word": "ねんぬ"
}
],
"lang": "Northern Ryukyuan",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Miyako",
"lang_code": "mvi",
"roman": "-nān",
"word": "なーん"
},
{
"lang": "Yaeyama",
"lang_code": "rys",
"roman": "-nēnu",
"word": "ねーぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Yonaguni",
"lang_code": "yoi",
"roman": "-minun",
"word": "みぬん"
}
],
"lang": "Southern Ryukyuan",
"lang_code": "unknown"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Ryukyuan",
"lang_code": "jpx-ryu-pro",
"word": "*-nai"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Related to *na (“prohibitive marker”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-ni",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "-na",
"tags": [
"irrealis"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "jpx-pro",
"2": "suffix",
"3": "infinitive",
"4": "*-ni",
"5": "irrealis",
"6": "*-na"
},
"expansion": "*-nu (infinitive *-ni, irrealis *-na)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Japonic",
"lang_code": "jpx-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/-nu",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Proto-Japonic entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
7
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
8
]
],
"english": "does not listen",
"text": "*kikanu",
"translation": "does not listen",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Negativizes a verb in the irrealis stem."
],
"id": "en--nu-jpx-pro-suffix-PynTS8He",
"tags": [
"morpheme",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"etymology_text": "See -nut.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-ny",
"tags": [
"front-vowel"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "{{{stem}}}"
},
"expansion": "{{{stem}}}",
"name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "{{{stem2}}}"
},
"expansion": "{{{stem2}}}",
"name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ny"
},
"expansion": "nU",
"name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"10": "-{{{stem}}}-",
"11": "",
"12": "-{{{stem2}}}-",
"13": "linguistic notation",
"14": "-nU",
"15": "",
"16": "{{{comp}}}",
"17": "",
"18": "{{{sup}}}",
"2": "suffixes",
"3": "front vowel harmony variant",
"4": "-ny",
"5": "",
"6": "-{{{stem}}}-",
"7": "",
"8": "-{{{stem2}}}-",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"f2nolink": "1",
"f3nolink": "1",
"f4nolink": "1",
"f5nolink": "1",
"f6nolink": "1",
"f7nolink": "1",
"f8nolink": "1",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "-nu (front vowel harmony variant -ny, linguistic notation -nU)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "inflectional",
"var": "ny"
},
"expansion": "-nu (front vowel harmony variant -ny, linguistic notation -nU)",
"name": "fi-suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "colloquial",
"3": "dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(colloquial, dialectal)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "fi",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "-nut"
}
],
"categories": [
"Finnish colloquialisms",
"Finnish dialectal terms",
"Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
"Finnish inflectional suffixes",
"Finnish lemmas",
"Finnish suffixes",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of -nut"
],
"links": [
[
"-nut",
"-nut#Finnish"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"colloquial",
"dialectal",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"english": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"word": "Ayɔ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
"word": "Ayọ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "someone from Dahomey",
"translation": "someone from Dahomey",
"word": "Dànhòmẹ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "someone from Dahomey",
"translation": "someone from Dahomey",
"word": "Dànxòmɛ̀nù"
},
{
"english": "Fon person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Fon person/ethnicity",
"word": "Fọ̀nnù"
},
{
"english": "Gun person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Gun person/ethnicity",
"word": "Gunnù"
},
{
"english": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"word": "Whlànù"
},
{
"english": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"translation": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
"word": "Xwlànù"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fon",
"2": "-nù"
},
"expansion": "Fon -nù",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognates include Fon -nù",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-nù",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "guw",
"2": "suffix",
"head": "-nù"
},
"expansion": "-nù",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Gun",
"lang_code": "guw",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Gun compound terms",
"Gun entries with incorrect language header",
"Gun lemmas",
"Gun suffixes",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Xwlà (“Xwla”) → Xwlànù (“Xwla person/ethnic group”, literally “person/people of Xwla origin”)"
},
{
"text": "Ayɔ̀ (“Yoruba”) → Ayɔ̀nù (“Yoruba person/ethnic group”, literally “person/people of Yoruba origin”)"
},
{
"text": "Fɔ̀n (“Fon”) → Fɔ̀nnù (“Fon person/ethnic group”, literally “person/people of Fon origin”)"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to form nouns describing the origin of a person or group of a certain ethnic group or nationality."
],
"links": [
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"group",
"group"
],
[
"ethnic group",
"ethnic group"
],
[
"nationality",
"nationality"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "-tɔ́"
},
{
"word": "-tọ́"
},
{
"word": "-ví"
}
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nũ̀/"
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "romanization",
"head": "",
"sc": "Latn"
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "ja-rom"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "romanization",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "ぬ"
}
],
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese non-lemma forms",
"Japanese romanizations",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Rōmaji transcription of ぬ"
],
"links": [
[
"Rōmaji",
"romaji"
],
[
"ぬ",
"ぬ#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"Rōmaji",
"alt-of",
"romanization"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "-nnu",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mak",
"2": "suffix",
"3": "possessive suffix",
"4": "",
"5": "Lontara spelling",
"6": "ᨊᨘ"
},
"expansion": "-nu (possessive suffix, Lontara spelling ᨊᨘ)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Makasar",
"lang_code": "mak",
"pos": "suffix",
"related": [
{
"word": "nakke"
},
{
"word": "-a'"
},
{
"word": "ku-"
},
{
"word": "-ku"
},
{
"word": "kambe"
},
{
"word": "-kang"
},
{
"word": "ki-"
},
{
"word": "-mang"
},
{
"word": "katte"
},
{
"word": "-ki'"
},
{
"word": "-ta"
},
{
"word": "kau"
},
{
"word": "-ko"
},
{
"word": "nu-"
},
{
"word": "ia"
},
{
"word": "-i"
},
{
"word": "na-"
},
{
"word": "-na"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Makasar entries with incorrect language header",
"Makasar lemmas",
"Makasar pronouns",
"Makasar suffixes",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"your (familiar second person singular and plural)"
],
"links": [
[
"your",
"your"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme",
"possessive",
"suffix"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[nu]"
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English non-lemma forms",
"Old English suffix forms",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "suffix form"
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "-en"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of -en:",
"strong nominative feminine singular"
],
"links": [
[
"-en",
"-en#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"morpheme",
"nominative",
"singular",
"strong"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "-en"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of -en:",
"strong nominative/accusative neuter plural"
],
"links": [
[
"-en",
"-en#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"morpheme",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural",
"strong"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nu/"
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-zu",
"word": "ず"
}
],
"lang": "Old Japanese",
"lang_code": "ojp",
"roman": "nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "-zu",
"word": "ず"
}
],
"lang": "Old Japanese",
"lang_code": "ojp",
"roman": "-zu",
"word": "ず"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Kikai",
"lang_code": "kzg",
"roman": "-nēn",
"word": "ねーん"
},
{
"lang": "Kikai",
"lang_code": "kzg",
"roman": "-nēran",
"word": "ねーらん"
},
{
"lang": "Kunigami",
"lang_code": "xug",
"roman": "-nē",
"word": "ねー"
},
{
"lang": "Kunigami",
"lang_code": "xug",
"roman": "-nu",
"word": "ぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Northern Amami Ōshima",
"lang_code": "ryn",
"roman": "-nen",
"word": "ねん"
},
{
"lang": "Okinawan",
"lang_code": "ryu",
"roman": "-nēn",
"word": "ねーん"
},
{
"lang": "Okinoerabu",
"lang_code": "okn",
"roman": "-n",
"word": "ん"
},
{
"lang": "Southern Amami Ōshima",
"lang_code": "ams",
"roman": "-nem",
"word": "ねむっ"
},
{
"lang": "Southern Amami Ōshima",
"lang_code": "ams",
"roman": "-nēm",
"word": "ねーむっ"
},
{
"lang": "Yoron",
"lang_code": "yox",
"roman": "-nen",
"word": "ねん"
},
{
"lang": "Yoron",
"lang_code": "yox",
"roman": "-nennu",
"word": "ねんぬ"
}
],
"lang": "Northern Ryukyuan",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Miyako",
"lang_code": "mvi",
"roman": "-nān",
"word": "なーん"
},
{
"lang": "Yaeyama",
"lang_code": "rys",
"roman": "-nēnu",
"word": "ねーぬ"
},
{
"lang": "Yonaguni",
"lang_code": "yoi",
"roman": "-minun",
"word": "みぬん"
}
],
"lang": "Southern Ryukyuan",
"lang_code": "unknown"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Ryukyuan",
"lang_code": "jpx-ryu-pro",
"word": "*-nai"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Related to *na (“prohibitive marker”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-ni",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "-na",
"tags": [
"irrealis"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "jpx-pro",
"2": "suffix",
"3": "infinitive",
"4": "*-ni",
"5": "irrealis",
"6": "*-na"
},
"expansion": "*-nu (infinitive *-ni, irrealis *-na)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Japonic",
"lang_code": "jpx-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/-nu",
"pos": "suffix",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Japonic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Japonic lemmas",
"Proto-Japonic suffixes",
"Proto-Japonic terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
7
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
8
]
],
"english": "does not listen",
"text": "*kikanu",
"translation": "does not listen",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Negativizes a verb in the irrealis stem."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vep",
"2": "urj-fin-pro",
"3": "*-nut"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Finnic *-nut",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Finnic *-nut.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "vep-decl-kolnu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "-nu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuded",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuded",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuziden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nut",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuden",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"essive-instructive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzin",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"essive-instructive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudeks",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzikš",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"translative"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudes",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuziš",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudespäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"elative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzišpäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"elative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudehe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"illative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzihe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"illative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudel",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzil",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudelpäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzilpäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudele",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"allative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzile",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"allative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudeta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"abessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudenke",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidenke",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comitative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nutme",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"prolative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidme",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"prolative"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudenno",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-i",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidenno",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-i",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudennoks",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-ii",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidennoks",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"approximative",
"approximative-ii",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudennopäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"egressive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzidennopäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"egressive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudehesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative",
"terminative-i"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzihesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative",
"terminative-i"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudelesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative",
"terminative-ii"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzilesai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative",
"terminative-ii"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudessai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative",
"terminative-iii"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative",
"terminative-iii"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudehepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-i",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzihepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-i",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-nudelepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-ii",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-nuzilepäi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"additive",
"additive-ii",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vep",
"2": "suffixes",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "kaikiš",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"cat2": "adjective-forming suffixes",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"suff": "1"
},
"expansion": "-nu",
"name": "vep-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "vep-decl-kolnu"
}
],
"lang": "Veps",
"lang_code": "vep",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Veps adjective-forming suffixes",
"Veps entries with incorrect language header",
"Veps kolnu-type nominals",
"Veps lemmas",
"Veps suffixes",
"Veps terms derived from Proto-Finnic",
"Veps terms inherited from Proto-Finnic"
],
"glosses": [
"-ed; forms the past active participle of verbs."
],
"links": [
[
"-ed",
"-ed"
]
],
"qualifier": "having",
"raw_glosses": [
"(having) -ed; forms the past active participle of verbs."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-nu"
}
Download raw JSONL data for -nu meaning in All languages combined (14.2kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: linguistic notation -nU",
"path": [
"-nu"
],
"section": "Finnish",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-nu",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: Lontara spelling ᨊᨘ",
"path": [
"-nu"
],
"section": "Makasar",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-nu",
"trace": ""
}
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