nne

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

• IPA^(key): /ń̩né/

ńné

1. mother

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

nne

1. four; 4

• Northern Sotho language
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210426194356/https://ioling.org/booklets/iol-2015-team-sol.en-gb.pdf

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

nne

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

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-nne (declinable)

1. four

nne (n class, plural nne)

1. (card games) four

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

nne

1. four

• IPA^(key): [nne]

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

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.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nne”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 117–118
• 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, 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”