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nad
nad
English
Initialism
nad
- (linguistics) noun animate dependent
 
See also
Noun
nad (plural nads)
-  (slang, mostly plural) testicle
-  2004, Bob Gunn, Sex, Ghosts and Gumshoes (page 119)
- I look down and the little one has already cut right through my ball sac and is in the process of slicing my left nad free.
 
 
 -  2004, Bob Gunn, Sex, Ghosts and Gumshoes (page 119)
 
Anagrams
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *nadъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neh₃ + dʰh₁-o-
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nat/
 
Preposition
nad
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *nadъ. Compare na (“on, onto”), nad-, nat-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nâd/
 
Preposition
nȁd (Cyrillic spelling на̏д)
-  (with instrumental) over, above (with no change of position, answering the question gdjȅ/gdȅ)
- nad stolom ― over the table
 - vlast nad nekim ― power over somebody
 - heroj nad herojima ― the greatest of all heroes
 
 -  (with accusative) over, above (usually with change of position, answering the question kùda)
- nagnuo se nad vodu ― he leaned over the water
 
 
References
- “nad” in Hrvatski jezični portal
 
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *nadъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nat/, /nad/
 - Tonal orthography: nad
 
Preposition
nad