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NIX,

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Definitions and meaning of nix

nix

Etymology 1

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General American) IPA(key): /nɪks/
  • Rhymes: -ɪks
  • Homophone: nicks

Noun

nix (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Nothing. [from 1789]
    Synonyms: nada, zip
Translations

Verb

nix (third-person singular simple present nixes, present participle nixing, simple past and past participle nixed)

  1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. [from 1903]
    Synonyms: cancel, reject
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      He said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he "wanted to share the bed" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now.
  2. To destroy or eradicate.
Translations

Interjection

nix

  1. No! Not at all!
  2. (obsolete) A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.

Related terms

  • 86 / eighty-six
  • ixnay
  • mox nix

References

Etymology 2

From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”).

Noun

nix (plural nixes)

  1. A treacherous water-spirit
    Hyponym: nixie
Translations

Anagrams

  • Xin

Bavarian

Etymology

Contraction of Middle High German nihtes niht (“nothing of nothing”), from Old High German niowiht, from nio (“never”) + wiht (“being, creature”), whence also ned (“not”), net, and German nicht, nichts. Compare also Central Franconian nüüx, nuuks, neihst, nühs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /niks/

Pronoun

nix (indefinite)

  1. nothing
    Nix mehr då. ― Nothing left.

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • nieks (variant spellings)
  • neihst (Moselle Franconian)
  • nüüx (Ripuarian)
  • nühs (most of Ripuarian)

Etymology

From German nix. Compare Central Franconian nüüx and nühs, also Bavarian nix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /niks/

Pronoun

nix (indefinite)

  1. nothing

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈníːʃ]

Noun

nīx (inanimate)

  1. first-person singular possessive singular of īxtli; (it is) my eye.
  2. first-person singular possessive plural of īxtli; (they are) my eyes.

Danish

Etymology

From German nix, nichts (“nothing”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /neɡs/, [neɡ̊s]

Interjection

nix

  1. no, no way

Alternative forms

  • niks

Pronoun

nix

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of niks

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɪks/
  • Hyphenation: nix
  • Rhymes: -ɪks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Nixe.

Noun

nix m (plural nixen)

  1. nix, nixie (water spirit)
    Synonyms: nikker, watergeest

Etymology 2

Possibly from German nix.

Pronoun

nix

  1. (slang) Deliberate misspelling of niks.

German

Etymology

A widespread form in dialects all over the German language area, probably the same as standard nichts, that is, a contraction of it.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɪks/
  • Rhymes: -ɪks

Pronoun

nix

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of nichts (“nothing”)
    Ich hab nix gesehen. ― I saw nothing.

Descendants

  • → English: nix
  • → French: nix

Interjection

nix

  1. no way!

Further reading

  • “nix” in Duden online
  • “nix” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sniks (with oblique stem *sniɣʷ- > niv-), from Proto-Indo-European *snéygʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”) (whence also Latin nivit, ningit, ninguit). Direct cognates include Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha) and Old Irish snechtae and indirectly also Sanskrit स्नेह (sneha), Old Church Slavonic снѣгъ (sněgŭ) and Old English snāw and snīwan (English snow and snew).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /niks/, [nɪks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /niks/, [niks]

Noun

nix f (genitive nivis); third declension

  1. snow
  2. (figurative) white hair
  3. (alchemy) Synonym of cadmia, zinc oxide

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: neauã, aneauã, neao, niau
    • Istro-Romanian: ne
    • Megleno-Romanian: neauă
    • Romanian: nea
  • Dalmatian:
    • nai
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: nibe, nive; nie; ni, nii, nia
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Portuguese: neve
    • Spanish: nieve
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: neve
    • Neapolitan: neve, neva
    • Sicilian: nivi
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: neiv, neva, neiva, nev
      • Lombard: nef, nif, nöu, neif, nev
      • Old Ligurian: neive
        • Ligurian: neie
      • Piedmontese: neu, nef
      • Romagnol: neiva, nev
    • Friulian: nêf, nêv, gnu (Dignano)
    • Istriot: nìo
    • Ladin: nëif, nei (Belluno)
    • Romansch: naiv, nev, neif
    • Venetian: neve
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: nê, neu, nei, neif (Valdôtain)
    • Old French: neif, noif, noi
      • Norman: nê, noif
  • Vulgar Latin:
    • *nĕvem
    • *nivāre, *nevāre, *nivicāre
  • Borrowings:
    • → German: nix, nichts
      • English: nill, nihil album
      • French: nihil-gris, nihil-blanc

References

  • Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈnɪβ-e/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “nĭx”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 438
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nĭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 156

Further reading

  • “nix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Low German

Alternative forms

  • nicks, Nicks, niks

Etymology

Compare to German nichts (“nothing”)

Pronoun

nix

  1. nothing

Derived terms

  • nix för ungud (Paderbornisch); nix för ungood/nix för ungod (North-Western)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German nichts.

Pronoun

nix

  1. nothing

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nix.

Noun

nix m (plural nicși)

  1. nixie

Declension

References

  • nix in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Sui

Pronunciation

  • (Sandong) IPA(key): /ni˥˧/

Noun

nix

  1. mother

Swedish

Etymology

From German nichts (“nothing”).

Interjection

nix

  1. (colloquial) nope
    Synonym: nix pix

References

  • nix in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • nix in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • nix in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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