(causes aspiration in verb following, though ní bhfuil is common in MSS., and ní bhfuair is heard in sp. l., this is due to a w sound being inserted for the fh, so as to avoid hiatus; assertive verb is suppressed after ní, and then there is no aspiration), not; ní maith é, it is not good; combining with ro before pf. tense it becomes níor; ní beag do . . ., it is enough for . . .; ní beag le . . ., he grudges; ní féidir, impossible, it is impossible; ní fuláir go, it is necessary; ní f. le, thinks imperative, makes a point of; ní f. no, must; ní headh, it is not, not so, nay, no; ní mór leis, he does not grudge, he is willing: ní mó, no more, not any more, neither, nor: ní mó 'ná sain é, that is as much as it is; ní mó 'ná often = not very, e.g. ní mó 'ná fada chuaidh sé, nuair, etc.; ní lughaide, not the less; ní lugha 'ná, neither, nor, e.g. níor labhair Tadhg, ní lugha 'ná chuir sé cor de, Tadhg did not speak, neither did he stir. ní m., a thing. See nídh, ní, indec., a daughter, used in Ó surnames of females as Máire ní Laoghaire, Mary Ni Leary; it is an abbr. of ní uí (from inghean uí).