na ní

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nani"

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• na nní

Etymology

Literally ‘any anything’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n͈aˈn͈ʲiː/

Pronoun

na ní

1. whatever
   • 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. 51^b12

     ní ind fessin eirbthi, ⁊ nách dó du·aisilbi na nní do·gní, acht is do Dia

     it is not in himself that he trusts, and it is not to himself that he ascribes whatever he does, but it is to God

   • 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. 62^b20

     a n‑imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn

     the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ní”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 489b, page 310; reprinted 2017