different between nod vs noh

English

Etymology

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnud?n? (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend?-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnot?n (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /n?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?d/
• (General Australian, Estuary English, Wales) IPA^(key): /n?d/
• Homophone: gnawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Verb

nod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.

   • By every wind that nods the mountain pine.

   • 1819, William Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm

     Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.

4. (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
5. (transitive) To signify by a nod.

   They nodded their assent.

6. (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired

   Even Homer nods.

7. (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.

   Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.
8. (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
   • March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]

     Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.

9. (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

Coordinate terms

• (incline the head): wag, yes

Related terms

• nod off
• nod out
• nodding disease, nodding syndrome

Translations

Noun

nod (plural nods)

1. An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
2. A reference or allusion to something.
3. A nomination.

   For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.

4. (figuratively) Approval.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• DON, Don, Don., ODN, don, don'

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• nodu

Etymology 1

From Latin n?dus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.

Noun

nod

1. knot

Etymology 2

From Latin n?d?. Compare Daco-Romanian înnoda, înnod (archaic noda).

Alternative forms

• nodu, anod, anodu

Verb

nod (past participle nudatã)

1. I knot, tie a knot.

Related terms

• nudari / nudare
• nudat

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish not, from Latin nota. Doublet of nóta.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /n???d??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n???d??/

Noun

nod m (genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)

1. scribal contraction, abbreviation
2. hint (clue; tacit suggestion)

Declension

Further reading

• "nod" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “not, nod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Northern Kurdish

Numeral

nod

1. ninety

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nod n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural nod, definite plural noda)

1. a bent spike on a nail (or similar) which is hammered through a medium (e.g. a piece of wood)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *naudi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??d/

Noun

n?d f

1. a need
2. a necessity for something

Descendants

• Middle Low German: n?t
  • Westphalian:

    Sauerländisch: nôd

    Westmünsterländisch: Nood

  • Plautdietsch: Noot

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin n?dus, from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nod/

Noun

nod n (plural noduri)

1. knot

Declension

Related terms

• înnoda
• noad?
• nodei
• nodos
• noduros

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?d/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin nota. Cognate with Cornish nos.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau, not mutable)

1. mark, brand
2. aim, objective, goal

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English node, from Latin nodus.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau or nodion, not mutable)

1. node

Etymology 3

Mutated form of dod (“to come”).

Verb

nod

1. Nasal mutation of dod.

Mutation

References

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese ? (n?), from Middle Chinese ? (nong, “talent, ability”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /no?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: no, know

Noun

noh (uncountable)

1. A form of classical Japanese music drama.

Anagrams

• 'hon, Hon, Hon., h'on, hon, ohn

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *n.m??? (“meat, flesh”). Cognate with Thai ????? (n???a), Northern Thai ??????, Lao ????? (n?a) or ????? (n??a), Lü ???? (noe²), Khün ?????, Shan ?????? (nô?e), Ahom ???????????????????? (nuew), Zhuang noh, Nong Zhuang nowx or nwx, Saek ?????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?/

Noun

noh

1. meat

Cebuano

Interjection

noh

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) nonstandard form of no

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:noh.

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German n?h, from Proto-Germanic *n?hw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Adjective

noh (masculine nohe, feminine noh, comparative noher or nöher or nöhter, superlative et nohste or nöhste or nöhtste or nöchste or nächste)

1. near; close

Usage notes

• The comparation forms with -o- are Moselle Franconian, those with -ö- are Ripuarian.
• The superlatives nächste (Moselle Franconian) and nöchste (Ripuarian) are used in the sense of English next, though the more regular forms can have this sense as well.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nox]

Noun

noh f

1. genitive plural of noha

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?noh/, [?no?h]
• Rhymes: -oh
• Syllabification: noh

Interjection

noh

1. Synonym of no (“well”) (especially before a phrase or when expressing exasperation)

Anagrams

• -hon

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nuh, whence also Old Frisian noch, Old High German noh.

Adverb

noh

1. still

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: noch (“neither, nor”, conjunction), n?
  • Dutch: noch
  • Limburgish: nóch
• Middle Dutch: noch (“still”, adverb)
  • Dutch: nog
    • Afrikaans: nog
  • Limburgish: nag

References

• Altniederfränkischer Psalm 18

Old High German

Alternative forms

• noc

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nuh.

Adverb

noh

1. still
2. more

Descendants

• Middle High German: noch
  • Bavarian: noch, nu

    Cimbrian: nó

  • German: noch
  • Luxembourgish: nach
  • Yiddish: ????? (nokh)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *n.m??? (“meat, flesh”). Cognate with Thai ????? (n???a), Northern Thai ??????, Lao ????? (n?a) or ????? (n??a), Lü ???? (noe²), Khün ?????, Shan ?????? (nô?e), Ahom ???????????????????? (nuew), Bouyei noh, Nong Zhuang nowx or nwx, Saek ?????.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /no?/
• Tone numbers: no⁶
• Hyphenation: noh

Noun

noh (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ? or ? or ???? or ????, old orthography no?)

1. meat

   Synonyms: (Nong) nowx, (Nong) nwx

2. flesh (of a person)
3. flesh (of fruit)

Derived terms