nigon

English

Alternative forms

• negon, negyn, nygon

Noun

nigon (plural nigons)

1. (obsolete) Niggard, miser. [14th–17th c.]

Anagrams

• Ngoni, ngoni, oning

Old English

Old English numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nigon     Ordinal: nigoþa     Age: nigonwintre     Multiplier: nigonfeald

Alternative forms

• nigen, nigan, niogen, nygon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *nigun, an unexplained variant of *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.ɡon/, [ˈni.ɣon]

Numeral

nigon

1. nine

   Nigon sīðum nigon bēoþ ān and hundeahtatiġ.

   Nine times nine is eighty-one.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Sēo tīd onginð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon.

     This period begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.

Usage notes

• This numeral was sometimes inflected for case, but could also be indeclinable.

Declension

Declension of nigon

	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nigone	nigone, nigonu
accusative
genitive	nigona
dative	nigonum

Descendants

• Middle English: nyn, niȝen, nin, nine, nyen, niwon (Early Middle English), niȝhenn (Ormulum), neghen, neȝen, neyen, neyn, neyne (especially Northern, North Midland)
  • English: nine

    Ottawa Valley: nein

  • Scots: nine, neen, nyn, nyne
  • Yola: neen

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪɡɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɔn/, /ˈnɪɡɔn/

Adverb

nigon

1. nasal mutation of digon (“enough”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of digon

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
digon	ddigon	nigon	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.