نېمە

Uyghur

Etymology

From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (what). -me is an interrogative formant.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (nemä, something), Kyrgyz неме (neme, something), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, what?), Bashkir нимә (nimə, what?) / нәмә (nəmə, something), Uzbek nima, Turkmen näme (what?), Khakas ниме (nime, what?), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nemɛ/

Pronoun

نېمە • (nëme)

  1. what

References

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992), An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN, page 947