nia
Old Irish
/ˈn͈ʲi.a/
noun
Definitions
- nephew, sister’s son
Etymology
Inherited from Primitive Irish ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ inherited from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss inherited from Proto-Indo-European *népōts (grandson, sister's son, grandchild, nephew, descendant).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*népōts
Gloss
grandson, sister's son, grandchild, nephew, descendant
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
孫
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *nepota Latin
- nepos Latin
- nepos, nepōs, nepōtem Latin
- nepos, nepōtem Latin
- nepot- Latin
- nepōs Latin
- pronepos Latin
- neveu French
- ἀνεψιός Ancient Greek
- *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂népōts Proto-Indo-European
- *népōts Proto-Indo-European
- *nefô Proto-Germanic
- genefa Old English
- nefa Old English
- नपात् Sanskrit
- नप्तृ Sanskrit
- nefe Middle English
- neve Middle English
- nefi Old Norse
- nepo Esperanto
- neboda Catalan, Valencian
- ανίψι Greek (modern)
- ανιψιός Greek (modern)
- nai Welsh
- nevo Ido
- nïa Old Irish
- *nefō gmw-pro
- *nepada Proto-Finnic
- *neɸūss Proto-Celtic
- *náptā Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *nápāts Proto-Indo-Iranian
- nipoatã Aromanian
- nipot Aromanian
- *nepōts Proto-Italic
- *nápāts Proto-Indo-Aryan
- np Middle Persian
- neoda Venetian
- nevódo Venetian
- *nepō Proto-Albanian
- *nepōtś(i)ā Proto-Albanian
- *nápāth Proto-Iranian
- *nei Proto-Brythonic
- 𐎴𐎱𐎠 Old Persian
- nei Middle Welsh
- nawáw Kalasha
- ᚅᚔᚑᚈᚈᚐ Primitive Irish