Lemizh / English dictionary

nàh.

to make nine individuals

Usage notes

The number nine has been associated with art since classical times (corresponding to Late Middle Lemizh), as can be seen in the number of the Muses, sources of the knowledge contained in art. Without doubt, Terpsichore is the fairest one of them.

Much earlier, in Old Lemizh, nine was the number of healers. In Middle Lemizh, it has come to denote placebo effects: if I give you nine pills, I am helping you but not because of any pharmacologic effect of the pills. Counseling someone nine times generates something close to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Etymology

< NLem neh‑a
< LMLem nèh‑yl, contamination of
< MLem nee‑yl
< OLem hnē‑, inflected form of
< PLem *hnewan
< PIE *h₁néu̯n̥
 —with—
< MLem dih‑yl ‘ten’
< OLem dish‑, inflected form of
< PLem *deshamt
< PIE *dék̑m̥t

Cognates

Eng nine, Gk ἐννέα ‘nine’