nád

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nad"

Hungarian

Etymology

From an Indo-Iranian language. Compare Sanskrit नड (naḍá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaːd]
• Hyphenation: nád
• Rhymes: -aːd

Noun

nád (usually uncountable, plural nádak)

1. cane, reed (tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	nád	nádak
accusative	nádat	nádakat
dative	nádnak	nádaknak
instrumental	náddal	nádakkal
causal-final	nádért	nádakért
translative	náddá	nádakká
terminative	nádig	nádakig
essive-formal	nádként	nádakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	nádban	nádakban
superessive	nádon	nádakon
adessive	nádnál	nádaknál
illative	nádba	nádakba
sublative	nádra	nádakra
allative	nádhoz	nádakhoz
elative	nádból	nádakból
delative	nádról	nádakról
ablative	nádtól	nádaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	nádé	nádaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	nádéi	nádakéi

Possessive forms of nád
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	nádam	nádjaim
2nd person sing.	nádad	nádjaid
3rd person sing.	nádja	nádjai
1st person plural	nádunk	nádjaink
2nd person plural	nádatok	nádjaitok
3rd person plural	nádjuk	nádjaik

Derived terms

• nádas
• nádi

 

Compound words

• cukornád
• nádcukor
• nádszál

 

Further reading

• nád in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams

• dán

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n͈aːð]

Particle

nád

1. negative relative particle: who/which/that … not
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^a22

     Ní nád ṁbed arse di chorp, act atá de.

     Not that it might therefore not be of (the) body, but (rather) it is of it

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30^a3

     Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in fortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.

     As what is done in that is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 209^b13

     Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and, coní enggnatar gníma, acht asa·gnintar.

     This is what cannot be found there, that actions are not understood, but they are understood.

2. negative particle introducing noun clause: that … not
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 114^b18

     nád fil nech con·gné fris ón acht Día

     that there is no one to help him but God

3. conflation of negative relative particle with is: who/which/that is not

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 nád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 nád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 nád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 485, 539