NINE

"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe." - Nikola Tesla

Latvian "deviņi" is very similar to a Latvian word for GOD (Dievs). Could then this number be associated with the gods and be their special chosen number?

A number of all existing worlds in the Norse mythology is 9. Every ninth year people from all over Sweden assembled at the Temple at Uppsala. There was feasting for nine days and sacrifices of both men and male animals according to Adam of Bremen.

According to the very late Trollkyrka poem, the fire for the blót was lit with nine kinds of wood. Odin's ring Draupnir releases eight golden drops every ninth night, forming rings of equal worth for a total of nine rings.

When Odin sacrificed himself to himself, he hung upon the gallows of Yggdrasil for nine days and nights. In return, he secured rúnar "the runes, secret knowledge".

There are nine surviving deities of Ragnarök, including Baldr and Hödr, Magni and Modi, Vidar and Váli, Hoenir, the daughter of Sól and a ninth "powerful, mighty one, he who rules over everything".

In Kalevala it is said that the Ether has 9 regions. There are also 9 diseases most feared by mankind.

The plague sent by Apollo in Iliad lasted for 9 days. The sacred number of Zeus was 9.

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English: nine

Novial: nin

Danish: ni

Norwegian: ni

Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun)

Old Frisian: niūgun

Old English: nigon

North Frisian Sylt: niigen

Swedish: nio

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Old Prussian: newīnts (nevints)

Zazaki: new

Dutch Low Saxon: negen

German Low German: negen

Afrikaans: nege

Dutch: negen

North Frisian Helgoland: neägen

French: neuf

Norman: neuf

German: neun

Kurdish Kurmanji: neh

Albanian: nëntë

Pashto: نهه‎‎ (nëhë)

Ligurian: nêuve

Luxembourgish: néng

NA-

Mitanni: na-a-[w]a-, nāva-

Chakma: na

Assamese: ন (na)

Oriya: ନଅ (na'a)

Sanskrit: नवन् (navan)

Sinhalese: නවය (navaya)

Yagnobi: нав (nav)

Gujarati: નવ (nav)

Breton: nav

Cornish: naw

Wakhi: naw

Welsh: naw

Sogdian: nawmyk (naumik) ("ninth")

Urdu: نو‎‎ (nau)

Marathi: नऊ (naū)

Nepali: नौ (nau)

Hindi: नौ (nau) (numeral: ९)

Punjabi: ਨੌਂ (nauṅ)

Irish: naoi

Scottish Gaelic: naoi

Vilamovian: naojn

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Latin: novem

Corsican: novi

Galician: nove

Italian: nove

Portuguese: nove

Venetian: nove

Sicilian: novi

Romansch: nov, nouv

Aragonese: nou

Bengali: নয় (nôyô) (numeral: ৯)

Catalan: nou

Aromanian: noauã

Kurdish Sorani: نۆ‎‎ (no)

Persian: نُه‎‎ (noh) (numeral: ۹‎‎)

Romanian: nouă

Sardinian: noe, noi, nobe

Campidanese: noi

Walloon: noûf

Occitan: nòu

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Tocharian A: ñu

Tocharian B: ñu

Dalmatian: nu

Sogdian: nw (nu), nwa (nua)

Dhivehi: ނުވަ‎‎ (nuva)

Tajik: нуҳ (nuh), нӯҳ (nüh)

Spanish: nueve

Umbrian: 𐌍𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌌 (nuvim)

Ladin: nuef

Asturian: nueve

Aragonese: nueu

Manx: nuy

Friulian: nûf, nûv

North Frisian Mooring: nüügen

NI-

Faroese: níggju

Icelandic: níu

West Frisian: njoggen

Saterland Frisian: njuugen

North Frisian Föhr-Amrum: njüügen

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Armenian: ինը (inə), ինն (inn)

Greek: εννέα (ennéa)

Balto-Slavic DEV-

Old Church Slavonic: девѧть (devętĭ, dievęć)

Polish: dziewięć

Serbo-Croatian: девет, devet

Upper Sorbian: dźewjeć

Lower Sorbian: źewjeś

Slovene: devét

Czech: devět

Bulgarian: де́вет (dévet)

Slovak: deväť

Silesian: dźewjyńć

Kashubian: dzewiãc

Russian: де́вять (dévjatʹ)

Rusyn: де́вять (dévjatʹ)

Ukrainian: де́в'ять (dév'jatʹ)

Latgalian: deveni, devenis

Lithuanian: devyni, devynios

Latvian: deviņi, deviņas

Belarusian: дзе́вяць (dzjévjacʹ), дзявя́цера (dzjavjácjera)

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Polabian Drevani: diwiangt (Jan Potocki relation in 1795)

Article created on the 21st of June 2018.