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Catalan
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Alternative forms
[edit]- Nyils (local variant)
Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin asinus (“donkey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nils m pl (plural only)
- a town of the Rosselló (Roussillon) district in Northern Catalonia, now part of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France. French name: Nyls
Derived terms
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Swedish Nils. A variant of the more common Danish Niels.
Proper noun
[edit]Nils
- a male given name
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nils
- a male given name
Faroese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nils m
- a male given name
Usage notes
[edit]Patronymics
- son of Nils: Nilsson
- daughter of Nils: Nilsdóttir
Declension
[edit]| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Nils |
| Accusative | Nils |
| Dative | Nilsi |
| Genitive | Nils |
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nils
- a male given name from Swedish or Norwegian
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nils
- a male given name
Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval vernacular form of the Latin saint's name Nicolaus, Nicholaus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). Recorded in Norway since the 11th century. Cognate with English Nicholas.
Proper noun
[edit]Nils
- a male given name
Related terms
[edit]variants:
pet form:
References
[edit]- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 799 males with the given name Nils living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval vernacular form of the Latin Nicolaus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1455.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Nils c (genitive Nils)
- a male given name
Related terms
[edit]- (male given names) Claes, Clas, Klas, Nicklas, Niclas, Niklas, Nikolaus
- (pet form) Nisse
- (feminine names) Nicole
- (surnames) Nilsson
References
[edit]- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 137 988 males with the given name Nils living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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- Estonian terms borrowed from Swedish
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- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
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- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
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- Faroese male given names
- German terms borrowed from Swedish
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- German 1-syllable words
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- Norwegian terms derived from Latin
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