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See also: NNE, -nne, nnê, nṋe, -nñe, and -ññe

Igbo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Igboid *í-nẽ̀ẽ́. Cognate with Ekpeye íná, Ogbah ɔ̀ná, Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni ńné, Ika ńné.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ńné

  1. mother

Northern Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Numeral

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nne

  1. four; 4

Further reading

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Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Numeral

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nne

  1. four

Swahili

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Swahili numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: -nne
    Ordinal: -a nne

Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Numeral

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-nne (declinable)

  1. four

Inflection

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Coordinate terms

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Noun

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nne (n class, plural nne)

  1. (card games) four

See also

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Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text)
             
ree, rea, rei mbili tatu nne tano sita saba
             
nane tisa kumi ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha jokari

Tswana

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Tswana cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : nne

Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Numeral

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nne

  1. four

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV nne
Brazilian standard nne
New Tribes nne

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nne (obligatorily possessed; possessed nnedü, possessed plural nnakomo)

  1. child, offspring; son or daughter
  2. (in relation to a man) brother’s son or daughter, fraternal niece or nephew
  3. (in relation to a woman) sister’s son or daughter, sororal niece or nephew
  4. male parallel cousin’s child
    1. father’s brother’s son’s son or daughter
    2. mother’s sister’s son’s son or daughter
  5. female cross-cousin’s child
    1. father’s sister’s daughter’s son or daughter
    2. mother’s brother’s daughter’s son or daughter

Usage notes

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Unlike other animate nouns (including kinship terms), this noun is never used with the plural possessive suffix -tomo; instead, the general plural suffix -komo is exceptionally used with its possessed form, with the noun itself also undergoing an irregular vowel change in the plural.

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nne”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 117–118
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ännedö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “nnedü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “nnedɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 70, 74:ünnedü