nigon

• negon, negyn, nygon

nigon (plural nigons)

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

• Ngoni, ngoni, oning

• nigen, nigan, niogen, nygon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.ɡon/, [ˈni.ɣon]

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.

• Middle English: nyne, nine, nin, niȝen, neghen, neyen, nyen, niwon, niȝhenn
  • English: nine
  • English: (Ottawa-Valley) nein
  • Scots: nine, neen, nyn, nyne
  • Yola: neen

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

nigon

1. nasal mutation of digon (“enough”)