नी

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Hindi

Pronunciation

Particle

नी • (nī)

  1. (dialectal, especially Indore) Alternative form of नहीं (nahī̃)

Sanskrit

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *neyH-. Compare Avestan 𐬌𐬙𐬈𐬫𐬀𐬥 (iteyan, “to bring, lead”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎴𐎹 (a-n-y /⁠anaya⁠/, “he was leading, bringing”), Middle Persian (nītan, “to lead, drive”), Hittite 𒈾𒄿𒉈 (nāine, “to guide”).

Pronunciation

Root

नी • (nī)

  1. to guide, govern, direct

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root नी‎ (0 c, 10 e)
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Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root नी‎ (6 c, 0 e)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “नी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 565/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 90
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 17-9; 49
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 339-40
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*něti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 105
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