nü

Likely back-formation from nü-metal; originally an alteration of nu with heavy metal umlaut.

nü (not comparable)

1. (fandom slang, usually derogatory) New, especially used of remakes seen as a travesty or pale imitation of the original.
   • 2016 October 21, Tom Powers, Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television: An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood, McFarland, →ISBN, page 77:

     Simultaneously, his thoughts could be inverted as a positive assessment of the successful format Nü Who showrunners have applied to encode more than one original Time Lord: counterpointing the characterization of successive Doctors to keep audiences intrigued with the ongoing evolution of the show.

   • 2023 April 13, Daniel Cooper, “‘Star Trek: Picard’ turns a corner and jumps on the rollercoaster”, in Engadget‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 April 2023:

     I’ve always found accusations that I hate Star Trek weird, since I make my love of Trek clear enough every time I write one of these reviews. Every time I watch a nü-Trek episode that I’m fortunate enough to do as part of my day job, I hope that I can genuinely talk about it with a sense of love.

   • 2024 October 24, “'Saturday Night' Makes Me Envy The Boomers Again”, in The Content Report‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 December 2024:

     The script, by Reitman and Gil Kenan (the two having previously collaborated on the nü-Ghostbusters movies) takes problems that Lorne Michaels would face over the course of the first season […]

• (Chungli) IPA^(key): /nɯ˧/, [nɯ˧]

nü

1. (Chungli) spear

   Synonym: (Mongsen) ami

• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 163
• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 48
• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[3], Berkeley: University of California, page 79

nü

1. nonstandard spelling of nǘ
2. nonstandard spelling of nǚ
3. nonstandard spelling of nǜ

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”).

• IPA^(key): [nʏ]

nü (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring, Sylt)

1. now (at the current time)

Cognate with Persian نه (noh).

nü

1. nine

• IPA^(key): /ˈny/
• Hyphenation: nü

From French nu.^[1]

nü

1. naked, nude

   Synonym: çıplak

nü (definite accusative nüyü, plural nüler)

1. A nude painting.

From Armenian նուկի (nuki) or ունկի (unki), from Greek ουγγιά (oungiá), ultimately from Latin ū̆ncia.

nü (definite accusative nüyü, plural nüler)

1. An old unit of weight.

• önge
• nüğü (dialectal)

• “nü”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “nü¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3571

• IPA^(key): [nɨ]

nü

1. mother
2. mother’s sister, maternal aunt
3. father’s brother’s wife

The possessed forms are irregular: first-person singular maama, second-person singular aanü, third-person singular yeenü (Caura River dialect) or dheenü ~ deenü (Cunucunuma River dialect), third-person reflexive seenü.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “denɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012), Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 69, 73: “yenü”

nü

1. you