noo

See also: ŋoo, nooʼ, no'o, and ʻǀnô̰o

English

Etymology 1

From Old English nū, Middle English nou, in dialects without the shift /uː/ → /aʊ/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Adverb

noo (not comparable)

1. (dialectal, Scotland, Geordie) Now.

Usage notes

• Often preceded by the definite article: the now.

References

• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “noo”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
• “Noo”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “noo”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• nooo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nəʊ(ː)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Interjection

noo

1. Elongated form of no.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uː

Adjective

noo

1. Pronunciation spelling of new (representing dialects with yod-dropping)

See also

probably unrelated terms containing "noo"

• nicky nacky noo
• och aye the noo

 

Anagrams

• -oon, Ono, ono

Äiwoo

Noun

noo

1. cloud (white; not rainclouds)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 能 (nō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoo]
• Rhymes: -oo
• Hyphenation: no‧o

Noun

noo (accusative singular noon, plural nooj, accusative plural noojn)

1. noh

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *noo, from Proto-Uralic *no. Cognates include Finnish nuo and Karelian nuo.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnoː/, [ˈnoː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnoː/, [ˈno̝ː]
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: noo

Determiner

noo

1. those

Pronoun

noo

1. those

Usage notes

• Too and noo are deictic: They refer to physical entities. In contrast, se and neet are anaphoric, and thus refer to something that is previously mentioned in the conversation.

Declension

Declension of noo
	singular	plural
nominative	too	noo
genitive	toon	noijen
accusative	toon	noo
partitive	toota	noita
illative	tooho	noihe
inessive	toos	nois
elative	toost	noist
allative	toolle	noille
adessive	tool	noil
ablative	toolt	noilt
translative	tooks	noiks
essive	toonna	noinna

Derived terms

• noin

 

See also

Ingrian demonstratives
	proximal	neutral	distal
singular	tämä (tää)	se	too
plural	nämät (näät)	neet	noo

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 99
• Arvo Laanest (1966) “Ижорский Язык”, in Финно-Угорские и Самодийские языки (Языки народов СССР), volume 3, Moscow: Наука, page 108
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 347
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[5], →ISBN, page 13

Rohingya

Noun

noo

1. small boat

Scots

Alternative forms

• nou, now

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Scots now, from Early Scots now, from Middle English nou, from Old English nū (“now, at present, at this time, immediately, very recently”), from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuː/

Adverb

noo (not comparable)

1. now
2. (with the definite article) just now, right now
   • 2006, Cecilia Grainger, Bruised Blue:

     Thurs something noh richt here…Zeb widnae jist up an leave athoot telling me…NAW he’ll be here the noo and send you raggle taggle bunch oan yur wae…aye yull be telt ti follow his commands or CLEAR OFF THIS LAND…!

     There's something not right here…Zeb wouldn't just up and leave without telling me…NO he'll be here just now and send you ragtag bunch on your way…yes you'll be told to follow his commands or CLEAR OFF THIS LAND…!

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, page 406:

     She is in 3rd year, she does no want you, you are no even thirteen.
     So? I nearly am.
     Aye but ye are no the now.

     She is in 3rd year, she wouldn't want you, you are not even thirteen.
     So? I'm nearly thirteen.
     Right, but you are not right now.

References

• “noo, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 12 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
• “now, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 12 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Tagalog

Etymology

Compare Kapampangan kanuan (“forehead”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /noˈʔo/ [n̪oˈʔo]
  • Rhymes: -o
• (now dialectal, Batangas, alternative, uncommon) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʔo/ [ˈn̪oː.ʔo]
  • Rhymes: -oʔo
• Syllabification: no‧o

Noun

noó (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂ) (anatomy)

1. forehead; brow

Derived terms

• kanoo-noohan
• lana sa noo
• makitid ang noo
• malapad ang noo
• noohan
• taas-noo

 

Further reading

• “noo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “noo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[6] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[7], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 324: “Frente) Noo (pp) del hombre”