Definitions and meaning of noo
noo
Etymology 1
From Old English nū, Middle English nou, in dialects without the shift /uː/ → /aʊ/.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Adverb
noo (not comparable)
- (dialectal, Scotland, Geordie) now
Usage notes
- Often preceded by the definite article: the now.
References
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Interjection
noo
- Elongated form of no.
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Adjective
noo
- Pronunciation spelling of new (representing dialects with yod-dropping)
See also
Anagrams
Aiwoo
Noun
noo
- 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)
- noh
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *noo, from Proto-Uralic *no. Cognates include Finnish nuo and Karelian nuo.
Pronunciation
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- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈnoː/, [ˈnoː]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈnoː/, [ˈno̝ː]
- Rhymes: -oː
- Hyphenation: noo
Determiner
noo
- those
Pronoun
noo
- 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
Derived terms
See also
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
- small boat
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English now, nou, nu, 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
Adverb
noo (not comparable)
- now
- (definite) just now, right now
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /noˈʔo/, [noˈʔo]
- IPA(key): /ˈnoʔo/, [ˈno.ʔo] (obsolete)
- Hyphenation: no‧o
Noun
noó (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂ)
- (anatomy) forehead; brow
Further reading
- “noo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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