Etymograph

English

Nin

Nin comes from Serbo-Croatian Nin, and goes back to Latin Aenona.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEAenona
  2. Serbo-CroatianmodernNin
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEAenona
  2. Serbo-CroatianmodernNin
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Another origin of Nin

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*ninnus‘boy’reconstructed
  2. Catalanc. 1500–presentnen‘child’
  3. Catalan, derivedc. 1500–presentNinvariant form of nen
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A town in Zadar, Croatia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Aenona / Nin