ní

Noun

 * 1) water

Noun

 * 1) water

Verb

 * 1) live, be alive

Etymology 1
From conflated with a reanalysis of  as.

Noun

 * 1) thing
 * 2) object
 * 1) object

Declension
Alternative plural:

Pronoun

 * 1) which referring back to a clause

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) washing
 * 1) washing

Etymology 3
From.

Particle

 * 1) not
 * 2) not
 * 1) not
 * 1) not
 * 1) not

Usage notes
The preverbal particle triggers of a following consonant. It is not used in the past tense except for some irregular verbs. It takes the dependent form of irregular verbs. The copular form triggers of a following vowel.

Adjective

 * 1) alive

Etymology 1
From, from (compare 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Particle

 * 1) not

Verb

 * 1) is not, isn’t

Pronoun

 * 1) something, anything

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) he/she says

Usage notes
This verb is frequently used for quoted speech. To introduce quoted speech, just add the prefix to any of the forms of the verb. This modifies the meaning to something like "to say as follows" or "to say thus":
 * Asdzą́ą́ ání, góó deekai, ní. — That woman says, “we are going to Albuquerque,” she says.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the imperfective mode. Other modes are suppleted by the active verb, reproduced below for convenience.

Conjugation
.

Etymology 1
From (compare 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Particle

 * 1) not
 * "sga"
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Ní epur a n-anman sund.

Usage notes
Followed by the dependent form of the verb, which (in Old Irish) is not subjected to nasalization or lenition mutation unless a direct object pronoun is implied. Compare: In Middle Irish increasingly, and in Modern Irish always, ní lenites the following verb.
 * Here the b of ben is unmutated.
 * Here the b of ben is nasalized to mb.
 * Here the b of ben is lenited.
 * Here the b of ben is nasalized to mb.
 * Here the b of ben is lenited.
 * Here the b of ben is lenited.

Verb

 * 1) is not, isn’t
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.


 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Níta chumme-se friusom.


 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Cía thés hí loc bes ardu, ní ardu de; ní samlid són dúnni, air ⟨im⟩mi ardu-ni de tri dul isna lucu arda.

Conjugation
See relevant rows at Appendix:Old Irish conjugation of is.

Pronoun

 * 1) something, anything; some, any
 * 2)  nothing

Numeral

 * 1) two.