нь

From Middle Mongol ᠢᠨ᠋ᠤ (inu, 3sg-poss) and ᠠᠨ᠋ᠤ (anu, 3pl-poss).

-н (-n) was an oblique suffix originally after a personal pronoun’s stem, while -ь (-ʹ) is the unique suffix for possessive particles. Original determiners were merged into a single particle, so morphemes i and a which denote grammatical numbers, were omitted.

Compare also Buryat -нь (-nʹ), -ынь (-ynʹ), -иинь (-iinʹ) and Kalmyk -нь (-nʹ).

• (after a vowel) IPA^(key): /n/
• (after a consonant) IPA^(key): /ən/

нь • (nʹ)

1. Third-person possessive particle
2. Topic marker

   Нохой нь маш номхон байна.

   Noxoj nʹ maš nomxon bajna.

   The dog is very tame.

3. one (a particular thing or person, qualified with an adjective)
4. (after participles)what (marking a subject clause)

• бол (bol)
• минь (minʹ), маань (maanʹ); чинь (činʹ), тань (tanʹ)

• IPA^(key): /ɲ/

нь • (ny) (lower case, upper case Нь)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called ньэ (nye), and written in the Cyrillic script.

• (Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Ҕ ҕ, Д д, Дь дь, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, Ҥ ҥ, Нь нь, О о, Ө ө, П п, Р р, С с, Һ һ, Т т, У у, Ү ү, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я