"-nu" meaning in All languages combined

See -nu on Wiktionary

Suffix [Finnish]

Forms: -ny [front-vowel]
Etymology: See -nut. Etymology templates: {{m|fi|-nut}} -nut Head templates: {{head|fi|suffixes|front vowel harmony variant|-ny||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-|linguistic notation|-nU||{{{comp}}}||{{{sup}}}|cat2=|f2nolink=1|f3nolink=1|f4nolink=1|f5nolink=1|f6nolink=1|f7nolink=1|f8nolink=1|head=}} -nu (front vowel harmony variant -ny, linguistic notation -nU), {{fi-suffix|inflectional|var=ny}} -nu (front vowel harmony variant -ny, linguistic notation -nU)
  1. Alternative form of -nut Tags: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, dialectal, morpheme Alternative form of: -nut
    Sense id: en--nu-fi-suffix-t4D2KAnp Categories (other): Finnish entries with incorrect language header

Suffix [Gun]

IPA: /nũ̀/ Forms: -nù [canonical]
Etymology: Cognates include Fon -nù Etymology templates: {{cog|fon|-nù}} Fon -nù Head templates: {{head|guw|suffix|head=-nù}} -nù
  1. Used to form nouns describing the origin of a person or group of a certain ethnic group or nationality. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -tɔ́, -tọ́, -ví Derived forms: Ayɔ̀nù (english: Yoruba person/ethnicity), Ayọ̀nù (english: Yoruba person/ethnicity), Dànhòmẹ̀nù (english: someone from Dahomey), Dànxòmɛ̀nù (english: someone from Dahomey), Fọ̀nnù (english: Fon person/ethnicity), Gunnù (english: Gun person/ethnicity), Whlànù (english: Xwla person/ethnicity), Xwlànù (english: Xwla person/ethnicity)
    Sense id: en--nu-guw-suffix-ts2rrhKV Categories (other): Gun entries with incorrect language header

Suffix [Makasar]

IPA: [nu]
Head templates: {{head|mak|suffix|possessive suffix||Lontara spelling|ᨊᨘ}} -nu (possessive suffix, Lontara spelling ᨊᨘ)
  1. your (familiar second person singular and plural) Tags: morpheme, possessive, suffix Synonyms: -nnu
    Sense id: en--nu-mak-suffix-fY93bSP2 Categories (other): Makasar entries with incorrect language header, Makasar pronouns, Makasar terms in nonstandard scripts Related terms: 1st sg, 1st pl excl, nakke, -a', ku-, -ku, 1st pl excl [archaic], kambe, -kang, ki-, -mang, 1st pl incl, 2nd sg polite, katte, -ki', -ta, 2nd sg, pl familiar, kau, -ko, nu-, 3rd sg [plural], <empty> [plural], ia, -i, na-, -na

Suffix [Proto-Japonic]

Forms: -ni [infinitive], -na [irrealis]
Etymology: Related to *na (“prohibitive marker”). Etymology templates: {{m|jpx-pro|*na|t=prohibitive marker}} *na (“prohibitive marker”) Head templates: {{head|jpx-pro|suffix|infinitive|*-ni|irrealis|*-na}} *-nu (infinitive *-ni, irrealis *-na)
  1. Negativizes a verb in the irrealis stem. Tags: morpheme, reconstruction
    Sense id: en--nu-jpx-pro-suffix-PynTS8He Categories (other): Proto-Japonic entries with incorrect language header

Suffix [Veps]

Etymology: From Proto-Finnic *-nut. Etymology templates: {{inh|vep|urj-fin-pro|*-nut}} Proto-Finnic *-nut Head templates: {{head|vep|suffixes||||kaikiš|||cat2=adjective-forming suffixes|head=}} -nu, {{vep-adj|suff=1}} -nu Inflection templates: {{vep-decl-kolnu}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], -nu [nominative, singular], -nuded [nominative, plural], -nuden [accusative, singular], -nuded [accusative, plural], -nuden [genitive, singular], -nuziden [genitive, plural], -nut [partitive, singular], -nuzid [partitive, plural], -nuden [essive-instructive, singular], -nuzin [essive-instructive, plural], -nudeks [singular, translative], -nuzikš [plural, translative], -nudes [inessive, singular], -nuziš [inessive, plural], -nudespäi [elative, singular], -nuzišpäi [elative, plural], -nudehe [illative, singular], -nuzihe [illative, plural], -nudel [adessive, singular], -nuzil [adessive, plural], -nudelpäi [ablative, singular], -nuzilpäi [ablative, plural], -nudele [allative, singular], -nuzile [allative, plural], -nudeta [abessive, singular], -nuzita [abessive, plural], -nudenke [comitative, singular], -nuzidenke [comitative, plural], -nutme [prolative, singular], -nuzidme [plural, prolative], -nudenno [approximative, approximative-i, singular], -nuzidenno [approximative, approximative-i, plural], -nudennoks [approximative, approximative-ii, singular], -nuzidennoks [approximative, approximative-ii, plural], -nudennopäi [egressive, singular], -nuzidennopäi [egressive, plural], -nudehesai [singular, terminative, terminative-i], -nuzihesai [plural, terminative, terminative-i], -nudelesai [singular, terminative, terminative-ii], -nuzilesai [plural, terminative, terminative-ii], -nudessai [singular, terminative, terminative-iii], - [plural, terminative, terminative-iii], -nudehepäi [additive, additive-i, singular], -nuzihepäi [additive, additive-i, plural], -nudelepäi [additive, additive-ii, singular], -nuzilepäi [additive, additive-ii, plural]
  1. (having) -ed; forms the past active participle of verbs. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--nu-vep-suffix-vJV5~EQE Categories (other): Veps entries with incorrect language header, Veps kolnu-type nominals

Download JSON data for -nu meaning in All languages combined (12.8kB)

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    },
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      "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": [
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        "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"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "head"
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          "name": "Veps entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "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": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ojp",
            "2": "ぬ",
            "3": "ず",
            "tr": "nu",
            "tr2": "-zu"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Japanese: ぬ (nu), ず (-zu)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jpx-pro",
            "2": "*-n(i)su"
          },
          "expansion": "*-n(i)su",
          "name": "m"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Japanese: ぬ (nu), ず (-zu) (< *-nu, *-n(i)su)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "ぬ",
            "3": "ず",
            "tr": "-nu",
            "tr2": "-zu"
          },
          "expansion": "Japanese: ぬ (-nu), ず (-zu)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "literary"
          },
          "expansion": "(literary)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Japanese: ぬ (-nu), ず (-zu) (literary)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jpx-pro",
            "2": "*wu",
            "t": "to have; to sit"
          },
          "expansion": "*wu (“to have; to sit”)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jpx-ryu-pro",
            "2": "*-nai",
            "pos": "suffixed with the irrealis *-na and <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"jpx-pro\">*wu</i> (“to have; to sit”)"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *-nai (suffixed with the irrealis *-na and *wu (“to have; to sit”))\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: ねーん (-nēn), ねーらん (-nēran)\nKunigami: ねー (-nē), ぬ (-nu)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: ねん (-nen)\nOkinawan: ねーん (-nēn)\nOki-No-Erabu: ん (-n)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: ねむっ (-nem), ねーむっ (-nēm)\nYoron: ねん (-nen), ねんぬ (-nennu)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: なーん (-nān)\nYaeyama: ねーぬ (-nēnu)\nYonaguni: みぬん (-minun)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *-nai (suffixed with the irrealis *-na and *wu (“to have; to sit”))\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: ねーん (-nēn), ねーらん (-nēran)\nKunigami: ねー (-nē), ぬ (-nu)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: ねん (-nen)\nOkinawan: ねーん (-nēn)\nOki-No-Erabu: ん (-n)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: ねむっ (-nem), ねーむっ (-nēm)\nYoron: ねん (-nen), ねんぬ (-nennu)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: なーん (-nān)\nYaeyama: ねーぬ (-nēnu)\nYonaguni: みぬん (-minun)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jpx-pro",
        "2": "*na",
        "t": "prohibitive marker"
      },
      "expansion": "*na (“prohibitive marker”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "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": "Proto-Japonic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "does not listen",
          "text": "kikanu",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Negativizes a verb in the irrealis stem."
      ],
      "id": "en--nu-jpx-pro-suffix-PynTS8He",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-nu"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "-nut"
      },
      "expansion": "-nut",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See -nut.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-ny",
      "tags": [
        "front-vowel"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "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"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of -nut"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-nut",
          "-nut#Finnish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "colloquial",
        "dialectal",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-nu"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
      "word": "Ayɔ̀nù"
    },
    {
      "english": "Yoruba person/ethnicity",
      "word": "Ayọ̀nù"
    },
    {
      "english": "someone from Dahomey",
      "word": "Dànhòmẹ̀nù"
    },
    {
      "english": "someone from Dahomey",
      "word": "Dànxòmɛ̀nù"
    },
    {
      "english": "Fon person/ethnicity",
      "word": "Fọ̀nnù"
    },
    {
      "english": "Gun person/ethnicity",
      "word": "Gunnù"
    },
    {
      "english": "Xwla person/ethnicity",
      "word": "Whlànù"
    },
    {
      "english": "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",
        "Gun terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "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": "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": "1st sg"
    },
    {
      "word": "1st pl excl"
    },
    {
      "word": "nakke"
    },
    {
      "word": "-a'"
    },
    {
      "word": "ku-"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ku"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "1st pl excl"
    },
    {
      "word": "kambe"
    },
    {
      "word": "-kang"
    },
    {
      "word": "ki-"
    },
    {
      "word": "-mang"
    },
    {
      "word": "1st pl incl"
    },
    {
      "word": "2nd sg polite"
    },
    {
      "word": "katte"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ki'"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ta"
    },
    {
      "word": "2nd sg"
    },
    {
      "word": "pl familiar"
    },
    {
      "word": "kau"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ko"
    },
    {
      "word": "nu-"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "3rd sg "
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": ""
    },
    {
      "word": "ia"
    },
    {
      "word": "-i"
    },
    {
      "word": "na-"
    },
    {
      "word": "-na"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Makasar entries with incorrect language header",
        "Makasar lemmas",
        "Makasar pronouns",
        "Makasar suffixes",
        "Makasar terms in nonstandard scripts",
        "Makasar terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "your (familiar second person singular and plural)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "your",
          "your"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "possessive",
        "suffix"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[nu]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "-nnu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-nu"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ojp",
            "2": "ぬ",
            "3": "ず",
            "tr": "nu",
            "tr2": "-zu"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Japanese: ぬ (nu), ず (-zu)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jpx-pro",
            "2": "*-n(i)su"
          },
          "expansion": "*-n(i)su",
          "name": "m"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Japanese: ぬ (nu), ず (-zu) (< *-nu, *-n(i)su)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "ぬ",
            "3": "ず",
            "tr": "-nu",
            "tr2": "-zu"
          },
          "expansion": "Japanese: ぬ (-nu), ず (-zu)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "literary"
          },
          "expansion": "(literary)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Japanese: ぬ (-nu), ず (-zu) (literary)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jpx-pro",
            "2": "*wu",
            "t": "to have; to sit"
          },
          "expansion": "*wu (“to have; to sit”)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jpx-ryu-pro",
            "2": "*-nai",
            "pos": "suffixed with the irrealis *-na and <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"jpx-pro\">*wu</i> (“to have; to sit”)"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *-nai (suffixed with the irrealis *-na and *wu (“to have; to sit”))\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: ねーん (-nēn), ねーらん (-nēran)\nKunigami: ねー (-nē), ぬ (-nu)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: ねん (-nen)\nOkinawan: ねーん (-nēn)\nOki-No-Erabu: ん (-n)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: ねむっ (-nem), ねーむっ (-nēm)\nYoron: ねん (-nen), ねんぬ (-nennu)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: なーん (-nān)\nYaeyama: ねーぬ (-nēnu)\nYonaguni: みぬん (-minun)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *-nai (suffixed with the irrealis *-na and *wu (“to have; to sit”))\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: ねーん (-nēn), ねーらん (-nēran)\nKunigami: ねー (-nē), ぬ (-nu)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: ねん (-nen)\nOkinawan: ねーん (-nēn)\nOki-No-Erabu: ん (-n)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: ねむっ (-nem), ねーむっ (-nēm)\nYoron: ねん (-nen), ねんぬ (-nennu)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: なーん (-nān)\nYaeyama: ねーぬ (-nēnu)\nYonaguni: みぬん (-minun)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jpx-pro",
        "2": "*na",
        "t": "prohibitive marker"
      },
      "expansion": "*na (“prohibitive marker”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "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": [
        "Proto-Japonic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Japonic lemmas",
        "Proto-Japonic suffixes",
        "Proto-Japonic terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "does not listen",
          "text": "kikanu",
          "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": [
        "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"
}

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