Noun: niþ
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
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On þām ġewinne, ⁊ on moneġum oþrum æfter þǣm, Hannibal ġecȳþde þone nīþ ⁊ þone hete þe hē beforan his fæder ġeswōr, þā hē nigonwintre cniht wæs, þæt hē næfre ne wurde Rōmana frēond. (In that battle, and in many others after that, Hannibal proved the hostility and hatred that he swore before his father when he was a nine-year-old boy, that he would never become a friend of the Romans.)
Nouns inflected like niþ
wælniþ,
bealosiþ,
bealusiþ,
niþ,
siþ,
striþ,
alorriþ,
wræcsiþ,
forsiþ,
hinsiþ,
framsiþ,
fromsiþ,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *nīþ, from Proto-Germanic *nīþą. Cognate with Old Saxon nīth, Dutch nijd, Old High German nīd (German Neid), Old Norse níð (regional Swedish nid), Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸 (neiþ). See: Dutch Nouns '
nijd', German Nouns '
Neid', Swedish Nouns '
nid', Gothic Nouns '
𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸'.
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