# nod
## Translingual
### Symbol

nod
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Northern Thai.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Northern Thai terms

## English
### Etymology

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, New Zealand) IPA: /nɒd/ /nɒːd/
* (General American) IPA: /nɑd/
* (General Australian, Estuary English, Wales) IPA: /nɔd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒd, -ɑd, -ɔd
* Homophone: gnawed (cot–caught merger)

### Verb

nod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)
* (transitive, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
* (transitive, intransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
* (transitive, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.
** 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
** 1819, William Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm:Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.
* (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
* (transitive) To signify by a nod.
    They nodded their assent.
* (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
    Even Homer nods.
* (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
    Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.
** 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
* (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
** March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
    Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.
* (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

#### Coordinate terms

* (incline the head): wag, yes

#### Derived terms

* nid-nod
* nodding blue lily
* nodding disease, nodding syndrome
* nodding donkey
* nodding thistle
* nodding trillium
* nodding wakerobin
* nod in
* nod off
* nod out
* nod through
* on nodding terms

#### Translations
### Noun

nod (plural nods)
* An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
* A reference or allusion to something.
** 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937.
* A nomination.
    For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.
** 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
    Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.
* (figurative) Approval.
    The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.
** 1964 August, “News and Comment: One main line to Scotland?”, in Modern Railways, page 86:Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow?
* A state of half-consciousness; stupor.
** 1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7:Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.

#### Derived terms

* a nod is as good as a wink
* a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
* continuity nod
* get the nod
* nigga nod
* nod-back
* on the nod

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “nod”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* DON, Don, Don., ODN, don, don'

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* nodu

### Etymology 1

From Latin nōdus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.

#### Noun

nod
* knot

### Etymology 2

From Latin nōdō. Compare Daco-Romanian înnoda, înnod (archaic noda).

#### Alternative forms

* nodu, anod, anodu

#### Verb

nod first-singular present indicative (past participle nudatã)
* to knot, tie a knot

##### Related terms

* nudari / nudare
* nudat

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish not, from Latin nota. Doublet of nóta.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /n̪ˠɔd̪ˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /n̪ˠʌd̪ˠ/

### Noun

nod m (genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)
* scribal contraction, abbreviation
* hint (clue; tacit suggestion)

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
nod
noda
vocative
a noid
a noda
genitive
noid
nod
dative
nod
noda
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an nod
na noda
genitive
an noid
na nod
dative
leis an nod don nod
leis na noda :

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nod”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “not, nod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Northern Kurdish
### Numeral

nod
* ninety

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

nod n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural nod, definite plural noda)
* a bent spike on a nail (or similar) which is hammered through a medium (e.g. a piece of wood)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *naudi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔːd/

### Noun

nōd f
* a need
* a necessity for something

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: nōt
** Westphalian:
    Sauerländisch: nôd
    Westmünsterländisch: Nood
** Plautdietsch: Noot

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin nōdus, from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nod/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nod n (plural noduri)
* knot

#### Related terms

* înnoda
* noadă
* nodei
* nodos
* noduros

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noːd/
* Rhymes: -oːd

### Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh not, from Proto-Brythonic *nod, from Latin nota. Cognate with Cornish nos, Old Breton not, Old Irish not, Irish nod.

#### Noun

nod m (plural nodau, diminutive nodyn, not mutable)
* mark, brand
* aim, objective, goal

##### Derived terms

* atalnod
* collnod
* cysylltnod
* di-nod (“ unremarkable”)
* dyfynnod
* ebychnod
* gofynnod
* hirnod
* hynod
* meincnod
* nod llyfr
* nod masnach
* nodi
* nodyn
* taro'r nod (“to hit the mark”)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English node, from Latin nōdus.

#### Noun

nod m (plural nodau or nodion, not mutable)
* (botany) leaf node
* (medicine) node
    Synonym: oddf
* (geometry, graph theory) node
* (physics) node
* (astronomy) node
    Synonyms: cwlwm, trawsglwm, oddf

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

nod
* Nasal mutation of dod.

### References

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

### Mutation

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