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Sanskrit
- निर्- (nir-) (before some consonants)
- नी- (nī-) (before r)
Etymology
From नि- (ni-), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ní, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ní, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ni (thus ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én). Cognate with Avestan 𐬥𐬌 (ni), German nieder, English nether, beneath, Old Church Slavonic нищь (ništĭ, “poor”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
निस्- • (nís)
- out, forth, away &c.
Derived terms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “निस्-”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 543/2.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 47