nan

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
From, pet form of the formerly very common female given names and. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier, from under the probable influence of , also from. Compare.

Noun

 * : a servant girl.
 * : an effeminate male homosexual.
 * We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.
 * We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.
 * We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

Etymology 2
See at.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) name word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing

Noun

 * 1) leg

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1)  and

Etymology
, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  dwarf

Noun

 * 1)  dwarf a member of a race from folklore
 * 2) dwarf a person of short stature, usually as the result of a genetic condition
 * 3)  in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head

Etymology
From.

Interjection

 * 1) no

Adverb

 * 1)  ; nah, nope

Article

 * 1) the (definite article)

Usage notes
This word is used only when the preceding word is singular and ends with a nasal consonant.

Preposition

 * 1) in

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬, ultimately from Greek νᾶνος.

Noun

 * 1) dwarf

Noun

 * 1) father

Noun

 * 1) mother

Etymology
From.

Numeral

 * 1) five (in counting)

Etymology 1
Akin to 🇨🇬, See there for more.

Noun

 * 1) bread
 * 2) food

Verb

 * 1) to put in, to set, to place
 * 2) to fuck, to copulate, to have sex with

Etymology
From, from , equivalent to 🇰🇲.

Determiner

 * 1) no; not a, not one, not any
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
 * "ang"
 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Iohannes þa gegaderode ðæra gymstana bricas, and beseah to heofonum, þus cweðende, "Drihten Hælend, nis ðe nān ðing earfoðe; þu ge-edstaðelodest ðisne tobrocenan middangeard on þinum geleaffullum, þurh tácen þære halgan rode; ge-edstaðela nu þas deorwurðan gymstanas, ðurh ðinra engla handa, þæt ðas nytenan menn þine mihta oncnāwon, and on þe gelyfon."


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Iohannes þa bead ðreora daga fæsten gemænelice; and he æfter ðam fæstene wearð swa miclum mid Godes gaste afylled, þæt he ealle Godes englas, and ealle gesceafta, mid heahlicum mode oferstáh, and mid ðysum wordum þa godspellican gesetnysse ongan, "In principio erat uerbum, et uerbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat uerbum, et reliqua:" þæt is on Englisc, "On frymðe wæs word, and þæt word wæs mid Gode, and þæt word wæs God; þis wæs on frymðe mid Gode; ealle ðing sind þurh hine geworhte, and nis nān þing būton him gesceapen."


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Nu wæs se bigleofa gemett on Iohannes byrgene, and nān ðing elles; and se mete is weaxende on hire oð ðisne andweardan dæg.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
 * "ang"

- Wēn is þæt ēower sum cweðe to him sylfum on stillum geðohtum, Hwæt forlēton has ġebroðru, Petrus and Andreas, þe for nēan nān ðing næfdon? ac wē sceolon on þisum ðinge heora gewilnunge swīðor āsmēaġan þonne heora ġestreon.


 * 1) * c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
 * "ang"

- Þæt word willan næfþ nān bebēodendlīċ, for þon þe sē willa sċeal bēon ǣfre frī.

Pronoun

 * 1) no one, nobody; none
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Þā cwelleras þā ġeopenodon þæt cweartern and nānne ne ġemētton.

Declension
Declension of nān

Etymology
The third person plural pronoun and the overall plural noun suffix  are unique for Papiamentu and cannot be found in any other language. According to Clements and Parkvall the pronoun and its derived suffix  were introduced into the language just in the 1700s because of the grown need for a plural marking. Apparently before the introduction the need for a plural marking was not felt. Just like in other South American languages the suffix originated in the form "kas-nan" literally "house-they" (ac Lenz).

Compare the Curripaco Arawak suffix and the Dutch suffix.

Searches are being undertaken to find the African connections with the words "iran", "ene", "na", "nan", "inen" and "ane" in the languages Bini, Kwa, Anabonese, Bantu, Kimbundu, Angolar, Fa d'Ambu, Edo and Saotome in the African countries of Sao Tomé, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (see Bartens and Schuchardt). All very improbably.

Pronoun

 * 1) they, third person plural
 * 2) their

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) dwarf

Etymology 1
From with irregular change of initial d- to n-. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) if
 * 2) whether
 * 1) whether

Usage notes

 * Before words beginning with b, f, m or p, the form nam is used instead.
 * Only used in the conditional tense, otherwise is used.
 * The negative form is.

Etymology 2
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Preposition

 * 1) in their

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) bread
 * 2) food

Noun

 * 1) father

Etymology
According to Ferlus (2009), from *t-rn-aːɲ, with nominalizer -rn- infixed into (whence ).

Formationally indentical but independently developed are 🇨🇬 [Rook] tʰrnaːɲ ("material used for weaving") (Suwilai, 2002) and Proto-West-Bahnaric *trnaːɲ ("thread"), whence 🇨🇬 nnaːɲ ("thread").

Noun

 * 1) bamboo tape (for basketwork); bamboo slat (of a paper fan)

Adverb

 * 1)  how

Alternative forms

 * non
 * nun

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬, see there for more.

Noun

 * 1) bread