နီး

See also: နီ and နိုး

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej. Cognate with Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”) and Chinese 昵 (nì, “intimate, close”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ní/

Romanization: MLCTS: ni: • ALA-LC: nī″ • BGN/PCGN: ni: • Okell: nì

Adjective

နီး • (ni:)

near

References

“နီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

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