different between nao vs nad

English

Adjective

nao

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

Adverb

nao

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

Anagrams

• AON, ONA, Ona, ano-, noa

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch na.

Preposition

nao

1. after

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1350; from Old Catalan or Old Occitan nau, from Latin navis. Doublet of nave. Compare also Portuguese nau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na??/

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. (nautical, historical) a three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th; carrack
   • 1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez (ed.), O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:

     nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazerados

     carrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a hald of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers

References

• “nao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “nao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “nao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “nao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

German Low German

Alternative forms

• Low Prussian: nâ, noa, nah
• Mecklenburgisch: nå, nâ, nah
• Westphalian:

  East Westphalian: näu (Ravensberg)

  Sauerländisch, East Westphalian (Lippe), South Westphalian (Dortmund): no

  Sauerländisch: noh (Hochsauerland, Olpe)

• Eastphalian: noah (Wedemark)

Etymology

From Middle Low German nâch, nâ, from Old Saxon n?h,

Preposition

nao

1. (Märkisch, Westphalian) to, towards

   Synonym: tau

References

Japanese

Romanization

nao

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

nao

1. Nonstandard spelling of n?o.
2. Nonstandard spelling of náo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of n?o.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nào.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. Obsolete spelling of nau

Spanish

Etymology

From Catalan nau, ultimately from Latin navis. Doublet of nave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nao/, [?na.o]

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. (poetic) a ship, a vessel

Swahili

Pronunciation

Prepositional phrase

nao

1. Contraction of na wao: and them, or with them
2. inflection of na:
   1. m-wa class object inflected plural
   2. m-mi class object inflected singular
   3. u class object inflected

See also

Object-inflected forms of na:

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [na?w??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [na?w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [na?w??]

Etymology 1

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (SV: n?o).

Adjective

nao • (?) (phonemic reduplicative nao nao)

1. anxious; uneasy

Derived terms

See also

• náo

Etymology 2

Pronoun

nao

1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of nào (“which”)

English

Etymology 1

Noun

nad

1. (linguistics) noun animate dependent

See also

Etymology 2

Douglas Harper suggests an abbreviation of gonad originating among biology students.

Pronunciation

Noun

nad (plural nads)

1. (slang, mostly plural) testicle
   • 2004, Bob Gunn, Sex, Ghosts and Gumshoes (page 119)

     I look down and the little one has already cut right through my ball sac and is in the process of slicing my left nad free.

Anagrams

• -and, -dan, ADN, AND, DAN, DNA, Dan, Dan., NDA, and, and-, dan, dna

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nat]
• Rhymes: -at

Preposition

nad + instrumental

1. over, above

   Antonym: pod

Further reading

• nad in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• nad in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• And, dan, Dan, dna, DNA

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nad?.

Preposition

nad

1. over
2. above

Old Irish

Particle

nad

1. Alternative spelling of nád

Polish

Alternative forms

• nade

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nad?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?neh? + *d?h?-o-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nat/

Preposition

nad

1. (+ instrumental) above, over (denotes location)
2. (+ accusative) above, over (denotes movement)

Further reading

• nad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• nad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Univerbation of an (“in”) +? do (“thy”)

Preposition

nad (+ dative, triggers lenition)

1. in thy; in your (singular)

Inflection

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nad?. Compare na (“on, onto”), nad-, nat-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nâd/

Preposition

n?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (+ instrumental case) over, above (with no change of position, answering the question gdj?/gd?)

   Synonym: ?znad

   Antonym: p?d

2. (+ accusative case) over, above (usually with change of position, answering the question kùda)

   Synonym: ?znad

   Antonym: p?d

References

• “nad” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nat/

Preposition

nad

1. (with instrumental) over, above (stationary)
2. (with accusative) over, above (motion towards)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nad/

Conjunction

nad

1. (formal) that … not (introduces a negative noun clause, marking it for emphasis)

2. that … not (introduces a negative noun clause, used before a vowel)

See also

• mai (affirmative, emphasis)
• taw (affirmative, emphasis)
• na (negative, unmarked, used before a consonant)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “nad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies