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Accadian. Chinese,
nabSamii," heaven" (or nap) nieh,Cantonesenip, "to ascend";
ni, "rising" of waters.*
na, zikaru, "male," "man," nan, "the male of the human
"slave"; ana,amelu, "man." species." Shanghaine" (=a in).
ni, nu do. do. do. nu, "slave"; ni, "slave-girl."
■jV^y nin, ni, ahattu, sister," niatig(niung),Cantoneseneung,
bcltu, entu, rubatu, "lady" "girl," "young lady"; "fe-
(nam-nin, bilfttu, "lordship," male";"goddess";ni,"an\m";
impliesnin,bilu,"lord.") ni, "slave-girl"; nii, "woman,"
"girl," "lady," "wife";niu,
(nu)"a lass."
ninni, nina, nana, a goddess niang-niang,titleof the empress ;
(Ishtar),the Great Mother;the a goddess (used like 'Our
Ladypar excellence. Lady'); nai-nai, "an old lady,"
"a grandmother"[naiis "a pe»
wordfor mother" ; "a lady ") :
Am.nai"-nat",Sh. na-na.
na, "a dam," "granny,""mother,"
" female of animals " (Canton
ese).
no (na) "the elegantbearingof
a lady."
.^Jffni, zumru, " body,"" belly." net, " the viscera"; nan," fleshon
the belly," "a fat abdomen"
(Cantonese).
ni, rdmdnu, "self" nei, "nearto,""personal"; per
haps ni, " thou," " you," in
Kiangsu "we," "us." Cp.
nei chih, " my own nephew."
ni, puluhtu, "fear," "awe," ning,"fierce";"repellent,like the
"reverence," "worship." guardian images in temples";
ngfloro,"\.oshudder,""startled,"
Cantonesengok,Amoygok.
- Add ng'd,i>, dialectic ngok, goh," a cliff," " a precipice " (ngak) ; ng>,
"high";dialectictigo, ngd,ngu ; ngo-ngb, "very high"(of a peak); older
nga;ngao," tall " ao, "high"; ngatt,an, "a high cliff"; forms whichshow
the relation of initial N to initial G : cp. GA, nalii, "tolift,""carry";NA,
(It), "high."
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