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Borrowed from Welsh nain (“grandmother”).[1]

nain (plural nains)

1. (North Wales) A grandmother.
   Synonym: mamgu (Southern)
   Coordinate term: taid
   • 2015 July 15, Lorna Doran, “The best places for kids to eat in Wales - as recommended by YOU”, in WalesOnline‎[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2018:
     Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.

• tadcu

1. ^ “nain, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• Inna, inna, nani, Nian, NINA, Nina, nina

From English nine.

• IPA(key): /najn/

nain (Bengali script নায়্ন or নাইন)

1. nine

• chykhyw
• no
• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.
• IPA(key): /nai̯n/ [nãĩ̯n]
• Rhymes: -ai̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. feminine allocutive of nau (third-person singular, with first-person singular direct object, present indicative of izan (“to have”, transitive auxiliary))

nain

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of naida

• Anni, Nina

Inherited from Old French nain, from Latin nānus.

• IPA(key): /nɛ̃/

nain (feminine naine, masculine plural nains, feminine plural naines)

1. dwarf
   Antonym: géant
   Hypernym: petit

• ajonc nain

• bouleau nain

• fourmilier nain

• lancer de nain

• nain de jardin

• planète naine

• nanifier

• nanisme

• nano-

nain m (plural nains, feminine naine)

1. dwarf (short human, small thing, mythological or fictional creature)
   Antonym: géant
2. gnome (decorative, in a garden)

• nanomaniaque
• pygmée m
• “nain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Nina

Nain.

From Proto-Finnic *nainën, equivalent to naija (“to marry”) +‎ -in. Cognates include Finnish nainen and Estonian naine.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯ne/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. woman
2. wife

• (wife): naisikko

• (woman): mees (“man”)

• (wife): mees (“husband”)

• emänain

• naiselikas

• naiselliin

• naiselokas

• naiseläjä

• naisiinpäivä

• naisikas

• naisikko

• naiskooma

• naissuku

• saunanain

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. inflection of naija:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular past indicative

• Fedor Tumansky (1790), “найне”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 51
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 334
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[3], →ISBN, page 73

nain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ナイン

• nayn

From Old French nain, from Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origins.

nain m (plural nains)

1. dwarf

• French: nain
• naim (Thomas d'Angleterre)

From Latin nānus, borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos), of onomatopoeic origin.

nain oblique singular, m (oblique plural nainz, nominative singular nainz, nominative plural **nain)

1. dwarf (mythical being)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
     "Nains!", fet ele, "leisse m'aler!
     A cel chevalier vuel parler
     "Dwarf!" Said she "let me pass"
     It's to the knight that I wish to talk
2. midget

• Middle French: nain
  • French: nain

From the prothetic n- +‎ ain, from the wrong division of mine ain as my nain.[1]

nain (comparative mair nain, superlative maist nain)

1. (Shetland) own
   He was my nain bairn. ― He was my own child.

• ain

nain

1. alternative spelling of nane

2. ^ “nain”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Tok Pisin numbers (edit)

| | 90 | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ------------------------------------ | | ← 8 | 9 | 10 → | | Cardinal: nain | | |

From English nine.

nain

1. nine

Used when counting; see also nainpela.

Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99

nain (“woman”)

From Proto-Finnic *nainën.

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA(key): /ˈnɑi̯n/, [ˈnɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: nain

nain

1. woman
2. wife

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “nain”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[4], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Proto-Brythonic *nanī, from Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”), probably from a Proto-Indo-European root imitative of a child speaking, similar to Ancient Greek νάννα (nánna).

• IPA(key): /nai̯n/
• Rhymes: -ai̯n

nain f (plural neiniau)

1. (North Wales) grandmother
   Synonym: mam-gu

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of nain to nhain. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also mam to mham for a similar example.

• tad-cu (“grandfather”)
• taid (“grandfather”)

Mutated forms of nain

△Irregular.

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “nain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies