नी

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niː/

Particle

नी • (nī)

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

Alternative forms

• नि (ni)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *neyH-. Compare Avestan 𐬌𐬙𐬈𐬫𐬀𐬥‎ (nayeti, “to bring, lead”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎴𐎹 (anaya, “he was leading, bringing”), Middle Persian [script needed] (nītan, “to lead, drive”), Hittite 𒈾𒄿𒉈 (nāine, “to guide”). More distant cognates include Russian нести (nesti), Latin nex, Latin nancīscor and Ancient Greek ἤνεγκον (ḗnenkon)

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /n̪iː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /n̪iː/

Root

नी • (nī)

1. to guide, govern, direct

See also

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 565,567,568,660
• Trubačev O. N., editor (1999), “*něti”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 25, Moscow: Nauka, page 105