# nia
## Translingual
### Symbol

nia
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nias.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Nias terms

## English
### Etymology

From Hokkien 爾／尔 (niā, “only”).

### Pronunciation

* (Singapore) IPA: /njɑ(ː)˨/

### Particle

nia
* (Singlish) Used to downplay the intensity of something that has been overestimated. Might indicate a slight belittling tone.
    Don't so kiam siap can anot? That one only five cents nia. ― Come on, don't be so stingy. That costs only five cents.

### Anagrams

* Ian, nai, INA, AIN, Ani, Ain, ani, ain', ANI, Ina, -ian, ain

## Abenaki
### Etymology

Cognate to Penobscot nis (“I”).

### Pronoun

nia
* I (the singular first person pronoun)

### References

* Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 58
* John Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist, volume 4, page 28 of 17–32

## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* nej (Northern Bavarian)

### Etymology

Cognate with German nie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) /niɐ̯/

### Adverb

nia
* never

## Catalan
### Verb

nia
* inflection of niar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Ese
### Noun

nia
* (anatomy) eye

## Esperanto
### Etymology

ni +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈnia]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: ni‧a

### Determiner

nia (plural niaj, accusative singular nian, accusative plural niajn)
* our

### See also

| | | Singular | Singular | Singular | Plural | Plural | Plural |
| | | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive |
| First person | First person | mi | min | mia | ni | nin | nia |
| Second person | Formal | vi | vin | via | vi | vin | via |
| Second person | Familiar$^1$ | ci | cin | cia | vi | vin | via |
| Third person | Masculine | li | lin | lia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Feminine | ŝi | ŝin | ŝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Neuter | ĝi | ĝin | ĝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Gender-neutral$^2$ | ri ŝli | rin ŝlin | ria ŝlia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Reflexive | si | sin | sia | si | sin | sia |
| Indefinite | Indefinite | oni | onin | onia | oni | onin | onia |
| Notes ||||||||
| $^1$ The second person familiar pronouns are archaic. $^2$ The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used. $^3$ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used. ||||||||

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

nia
* third-person singular past historic of nier

### Anagrams

* n’ai

## Garo
### Etymology

From ni- + -a This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Verb

nia (transitive)
* look at, watch, test, try

## Ido
### Pronoun

nia
* our

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Hokkien 領／领 (niá, “collar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈni.a/
* Hyphenation: ni‧a

### Noun

nia
* (dialectal) collar
    Synonym: kerah

### Further reading

* “nia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish nïa, from Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (n-p-a /⁠napā⁠/), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /n̠ʲiə/

### Noun

nia m (genitive singular nia, nominative plural nianna)
* nephew

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
nia
nianna
vocative
a nia
a nianna
genitive
nia
nianna
dative
nia
nianna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an nia
na nianna
genitive
an nia
na nianna
dative
leis an nia don nia
leis na nianna :

#### Coordinate terms

* (gender): neacht
* (age): uncail
* (gender, age): aint, aintín

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Ladin
### Adjective

nia
* no, not (after a negative) any

### Adverb

nia
* nothing, anything
* at all

## Machiguenga
### Noun

nia
* water
** 1999, Bibliografía peruana, page 140:Ogari nia onti pairo okametiti = El agua es muy buena : libro n.o 7; machiguenga con traducción al castellano.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* Pueblos del Perú (2006)

## Mandarin
### Romanization

nia
* Nonstandard spelling of niā.
* Nonstandard spelling of niá.
* Nonstandard spelling of niǎ.
* Nonstandard spelling of nià.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* nïae

### Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ (niotta, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss (compare Welsh nai), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Cognates include Sanskrit नपात् (nápāt), Old Persian 𐎴𐎱𐎠 (n-p-a /⁠napā⁠/), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós), Latin nepos, and Old English nefa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈn͈ʲi.a/

### Noun

nïa m (genitive nïad or nïeth, nominative plural nïaid)
* nephew, sister’s son

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Coordinate terms

* (gender): necht

#### Descendants

* Irish: nia
* Manx: neear

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nia, niae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Penobscot
### Etymology

Cognate to Abenaki nis (“I”).

### Pronoun

nia
* I (the singular first person pronoun)

### References

* J. Dyneley Prince (1902) “The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects”, in American Anthropologist (in Penobscot), volume 4
* Frank G. Speck, Newell Lion (1918 August) “Penobscot Transformer Tales”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Penobscot), volume 1, number 3

## Suki
### Noun

nia
* water

### References

* Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Donald C. Laycock, Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell (1970), page 1260: The Suki word for water, nia, has certainly been borrowed from languages in the Mai Kussa-Pahoturi area (Warubi, Mikud, Agob) where it is widespread. From suki it will have found its way into Zimakani (neia).

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Arabic نِيَّة (niyya).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

nia class IX (plural nia class X)
* intention
* purpose

### Verb

-nia (infinitive kunia)
* to decide, intend, resolve

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -nia :
| Positive present | -nania |
| Subjunctive | -nie |
| Negative | -nii |
| Imperative singular | nia |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kunia |
| Negative | kutonia |
Imperatives :
| Singular | nia |
| Plural | nieni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hunia |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -linia |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kunia |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tania |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tania |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sinie |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngenia |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singenia |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalinia |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalinia |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -menia |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshania |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jania |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kinia |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siponia |
| Consecutive | kania / positive subject concord + -kania |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kanie |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From the digit nio (“nine”).

#### Noun

nia c
* nine; the digit "9"
* ninth-grader; pupil in the ninth and last year of compulsory school
* a class of ninth-graders
* (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) the ninth year in school
    De barnen går i nian.Those children are in ninth grade.
* a person who finish a competition as number nine
* (slang) a face

##### See also

* nolla, etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva

### Etymology 2

From ni (“you”) +‎ -a, a common way of forming verbs in Swedish. First attested in 1731.

#### Verb

nia (present niar, preterite niade, supine niat, imperative nia)
* to address someone as ni (as opposed to du (or with a title))

##### Usage notes

* See the Wikipedia article on du-reformen for context.
* The term nia has varied considerably over time and location. After the 1960s and 1970s, the word du has in Sweden been used almost exclusively as second person personal pronoun, with a slight change in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when, for example, staff in restaurants and shops began to use ni towards the customers. Before the 1960s, however, there was a difference in use between Sweden and Finland: in both cases du was mainly used within family, among close friends, and when speaking to children. In Sweden, people with higher social statuses usually were addressed with surname and/or title, or if those were unknown, by reconstructing the sentence to use the passive voice or by using herr (Mr.), fru (Mrs.), or fröken (Miss), whereas people with lower statuses were addressed using ni. In Finland, the difference in status was not as commonly taken into account, and instead ni was used as the polite choice of pronoun regardless of social status.

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### See also

* dua

### References

* nia in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* nia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* nia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ Svenska Akademiens ordbok, column D2307

### Anagrams

* Ina, ina

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-a, compare Malay dia and Nias ia and Tagalog niya.

### Pronoun

nia
* he

## Timucua
### Etymology

Compare Tawasa néăh (“woman”).

### Noun

nia
* woman

### References

* Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, →ISBN

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [niə˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [niə˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [niə˧˧]

### Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) nia • (𥬩)
* small winnowing basket
    Hypernym: nong

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

Related to Wutunhua ni, from Mandarin 你 (nǐ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [n̪ʲa]

### Pronoun

nia
* you (second-person non-subject pronoun)