nọ

Igbo

Pronunciation
  • (inherent tone): IPA(key): /nɒ̙̀/

Verb

nọ

  1. (of animate nouns): to be in a place.
    Ebe ka ị nọ?
    Where are you?
    Oke nọ n'ime ọnụ.
    There is a rat in the hole.
  2. to stay, to dwell, to sit.
    • 2019, Bịabụlụ Nsọ nʼIgbo Ndị Ugbu a, Biblica Inc., Acts 28:12:
      Anyị bịaruru obodo Sirakọs ebe anyị nọrọ ụbọchị atọ.
      We arrived at Syracuse where we stayed for three days.

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *nɔʔ ~ *nɔh (“this”); cognate with Temiar anoh (“this”), Bahnar 'nâu/'nŏu (“this”), Mon ဏံ (nɔˀ, “this”). Compare with Khmer នោះ (nuh, “that”).

Pronunciation

Determiner

nọ • (奴,怒)

  1. (literary) this, that yonder

See also
Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
UnspecifiedClose to the
speaker or
newly introduced		Remote,
already identified
PLACE
đ- (first register)		 đâu
‘wherever’		 đây
‘here’		 đấy
‘there’
REFERENCE
n- (second register)		 nào
‘whichever’		 này
‘this’		 nọ
‘that’
PROPORTION
b- (first register)		 bao
‘to whatever extent’		 bây
‘to this extent’		 bấy
‘to that extent’
MANNER
s- (first register)
v- (second register)		 sao
‘however’		 vầy
‘this way’		 vậy
‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
D•
(Indefinite)		D1
(Proximal)		D2
(Medial)		D3
(Distal)
+NOM(inal) đâu
place-what		 đây
place-this		 đấy
place-that1
±NOM(inal) đó
(place-)that1		 kia
(place-)that2
–NOM(inal) nào
what		 nầy
this		 nấy/ấy
that1		 nọ
that2
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