"ni-" meaning in Old English

{
  "etymology_text": "From earlier *niwi-, before a regular sound change in which non-word-initial *w was lost before fully unstressed *i. The same sound change occurred to ǣ (“law”) ← *ǣi ← *āwi, sǣ (“sea”) ← *sǣi ← *sāwi, and glī (“joy”) ← *gliwi. It must have also occurred to nīewe (“new”) in the nominative singular, producing *nī ← *niwi, but its *w was restored by analogy with its inflected forms, which had a following *j instead of *i.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nī-",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "prefix",
        "head": "nī-",
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      },
      "expansion": "nī-",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "nī-"
      },
      "expansion": "nī-",
      "name": "ang-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "prefix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 23 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "new-, newly"
      ],
      "id": "en-ni--ang-prefix-XfR4usBv",
      "links": [
        [
          "new-",
          "new-"
        ],
        [
          "newly",
          "newly"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/niː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ni-"
}

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    "Pages with 23 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier *niwi-, before a regular sound change in which non-word-initial *w was lost before fully unstressed *i. The same sound change occurred to ǣ (“law”) ← *ǣi ← *āwi, sǣ (“sea”) ← *sǣi ← *sāwi, and glī (“joy”) ← *gliwi. It must have also occurred to nīewe (“new”) in the nominative singular, producing *nī ← *niwi, but its *w was restored by analogy with its inflected forms, which had a following *j instead of *i.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nī-",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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        "head": "nī-",
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      },
      "expansion": "nī-",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "nī-"
      },
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  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "prefix",
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        "Old English prefixes",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 23 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "new-, newly"
      ],
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        [
          "new-",
          "new-"
        ],
        [
          "newly",
          "newly"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/niː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ni-"
}