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Hindi
Pronunciation
Particle
नी • (nī)
- (dialectal, especially Indore) Alternative form of नहीं (nahī̃)
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- নী (Assamese script)
- ᬦᬷ (Balinese script)
- নী (Bengali script)
- 𑰡𑰱 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀦𑀻 (Brahmi script)
- နီ (Burmese script)
- ની (Gujarati script)
- ਨੀ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌨𑍀 (Grantha script)
- ꦤꦷ (Javanese script)
- 𑂢𑂲 (Kaithi script)
- ನೀ (Kannada script)
- នី (Khmer script)
- ນີ (Lao script)
- നീ (Malayalam script)
- ᠨᡳᡳ (Manchu script)
- 𑘡𑘲 (Modi script)
- ᠨᠢᠢ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧁𑧓 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐣𑐷 (Newa script)
- ନୀ (Odia script)
- ꢥꢷ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆤𑆵 (Sharada script)
- 𑖡𑖱 (Siddham script)
- නී (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩯𑩑𑩛 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚝𑚯 (Takri script)
- நீ (Tamil script)
- నీ (Telugu script)
- นี (Thai script)
- ནཱི (Tibetan script)
- 𑒢𑒲 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨝𑨁𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)
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)
- to guide, govern, direct
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- नीत (nītá, Past Participle)
- नेतुम् (nétum, Infinitive)
- नयितुम् (náyitum, Infinitive)
- नेतोस् (nétos, Infinitive)
- नेषणि (neṣáṇi, Infinitive)
- नित्वा (nitvā́, Gerund)
- नयित्वा (nayitvā́, Gerund)
- नीय (nī́ya, Gerund)
- नेय (neya, Gerundive)
- नेतव्य (netavya, Gerundive)
- नयितव्य (nayitavya, Gerundive)
- निनीषु (ninīṣu, Desiderative Participle)
- Derived Nominal Forms
- नय (naya)
- नयन (nayana)
- नयिन् (nayin)
- नाय (nāyá, “guidance, direction”), with many other related compounds
- नायक (nāyaka)
- निनीषा (ninīṣā)
- नी (nī)
- प्रणी (praṇī, “guidance, devotion”)
- नीति (nīti, “bringer of guidance”)
- नीथ (nīthá, “leader”)
- नेतृ (netṛ, “leader”)
- नेत्र (netrá)
- नेत्री (netrī, “leaderess”)
- नीथा (nī́thā, “a music air, an hymn, a song”)
- Prefixed Root Forms
Descendants
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