nhi

See also: Nhi, NHI, nhì, nhĩ, and nhị

Macanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲi/

Noun

nhi

1. Alternative form of nhim: girl, miss

   Nhi Pancha, passá bem?

   Miss Pancha, are you doing well?

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “nhi, nhim”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 493
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#nhim

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɲi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɲɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɲɪj˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 而 (“and”).

Conjunction

nhi

1. (only in compounds) and, and then, and yet
2. (only in compounds) but

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 兒 (“child”).

Noun

nhi

1. (only in compounds) child

Derived terms

• bác sĩ nhi (博士兒)
• bệnh nhi (病兒)
• nhi đồng (兒童)
• nhi khoa (兒科)
• sửu nhi (丑兒)
• thai nhi (胎兒)
• thiếu nhi (少兒)

 

Anagrams

• hin, inh

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n̥iː/
• Homophones: nhu, nhŷ (South Wales only)

Noun

nhi

1. Nasal mutation of ti.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
ti	di	nhi	thi
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.