different between nic vs nig

English

Etymology

Clipping.

Pronunciation

Noun

nic (uncountable)

1. (slang) nicotine

Anagrams

• -cin, CIN, ICN, INC, Inc, Inc., NCI, inc, inc.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???t?s]
• Rhymes: -?ts

Pronoun

nic

1. nothing, not any thing

   Antonym: n?co

Declension

Derived terms

• ni?it

Related terms

Further reading

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

Old English

Alternative forms

• nih, ni??

Etymology

ne- +? i?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nit??/

Pronoun

ni?

1. not I, not me

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ni??to, from Proto-Indo-European *ney + *k?is + *to. The "cz-less" form nic is from Proto-Slavic *ni??so (originally Proto-Slavic *ni?eso), an (archaic and synchronically irregular) variant of genitive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?it?s/

Pronoun

nic

1. nothing, not any thing.

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of niggard. Unrelated to nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (archaic) niggard

Etymology 2

Clipping of nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) nigger
   • 1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War

     In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

Verb

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

1. (Internet slang, ethnic slur) to behave as a stereotypical black person

Anagrams

• -ing, -ïng, GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, ing

Volapük

Noun

nig (nominative plural nigs)

1. ink

Declension

Derived terms

• nigiär

Yapese

Noun

nig

1. fish