different between nix vs nig

English

Etymology 1

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: nicks

Noun

nix (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Nothing. [from 1789]

   Synonyms: nada, zip

Translations

Verb

nix (third-person singular simple present nixes, present participle nixing, simple past and past participle nixed)

1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. [from 1903]

   Synonyms: cancel, reject
2. To destroy or eradicate.

Translations

Interjection

nix

1. (obsolete) A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.

Related terms

• 86 / eighty-six
• ixnay
• mox nix

References

Etymology 2

From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neyg?- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”).

Noun

nix (plural nixes)

1. A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.

Translations

Anagrams

• Xin

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ní??]

Noun

n?x (inanimate)

1. first-person singular possessive singular of ?xtli; (it is) my eye.
2. first-person singular possessive plural of ?xtli; (they are) my eyes.

Danish

Etymology

From German nichts (“nothing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?s/, [ne??s]

Interjection

nix or niks

1. no, no way

Pronoun

nix

1. (non-standard form of) niks

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ks/
• Hyphenation: nix
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Nixe.

Noun

nix m (plural nixen)

1. nix, nixie (water spirit)
   • 1956, s-Gravenhage. Maandblad der gemeente 's-Gravenhage, page 14.

   Synonyms: nikker, watergeest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German nix.

Pronoun

nix

1. (slang) Deliberate misspelling of niks.

German

Etymology

A widespread form in dialects all over the German language area, probably the same as standard nichts, viz. a contraction of it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ks/

Pronoun

nix

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of nichts (“nothing”)

Descendants

• ? English: nix

Interjection

nix

1. no way!

Further reading

• “nix” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sniks (with oblique stem *sni??- > niv-), from Proto-Indo-European *snéyg??s (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneyg??- (“to snow”) (whence also Latin nivit, ningit, ninguit). Direct cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (nípha) and Old Irish snechtae and indirectly also Sanskrit ????? (sneha) and Old English sn?w and sn?wan (English snow and snew).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niks/, [n?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niks/, [niks]

Noun

nix f (genitive nivis); third declension

1. snow
2. (figuratively) white hair

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• nix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Low German

Alternative forms

• nicks, Nicks

Pronoun

nix

1. nothing

Derived terms

• nix för ungud (Paderbornisch); nix för ungood/nix för ungod (North-Western)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German nichts.

Pronoun

nix

1. nothing

Swedish

Etymology

From German nichts (“nothing”)

Interjection

nix

1. (slang) not, no (negative response to a question)

Synonyms

• nix pix

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