different between nao vs naw

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

From Scots naw, naa, na, from Middle English na, from Old English n? (“no, never”). More at no.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Interjection

naw

1. (Scotland, US, Jamaican) Pronunciation spelling of no.
2. (Jamaican) Pronunciation spelling of not.

Anagrams

• NWA, WAN, Wan, awn, wan, wan-

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h?néwn?.

Numeral

naw

1. nine

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Probably from English not.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??/, /?n??/
• Hyphenation: naw

Adverb

naw

1. not

Particle

naw

1. no

Maricopa

Noun

naw

1. friend

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nav?.

Noun

naw m

1. corpse

Tarao

Noun

naw

1. child

References

• 2002, Chungkham Yashwanta Singh, Tarao Grammar

Wakhi

Etymology

Cognate with Yagnobi ??? (nav).

Numeral

naw

1. nine

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /na?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /nau?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h?néwn?.

Numeral

naw

1. nine

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

naw

1. Nasal mutation of daw.

Mutation

References

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

Whitesands

Noun

naw

1. knife

References

• Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 75