नी
Hindi
Pronunciation
- (Standard Hindi) IPA(key): /niː/
Particle
नी • (nī)
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- नि (ni), नय् (nay)
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- (“to lead”). Compare Avestan 𐬌𐬙𐬈𐬫𐬀𐬥 (iteyan, “to bring, lead”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎴𐎹 (a-n-y /anaya/, “he was leading, bringing”), Middle Persian [script needed] (nītan, “to lead, drive”), Hittite 𒈾𒄿𒉈 (nāine, “to guide”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /niː/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /n̪iː/
Root
नी • (nī)
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
Secondary forms
- नी॒यते॑ (nīyáte, passive)
- अना॑यि (ánāyi, passive aorist)
- ना॒यय॑ति (nāyáyati, causative)
- अनीनयत् (anīnayat, causative aorist)
- निनी॑षति (nínīṣati, desiderative)
- ने॒नी॒यते॑ (nenīyáte, intensive)
Non-finite forms
- नी॒त (nītá, past participle)
- नेतु॑म् (nétum, infinitive)
- नयि॑तुम् (náyitum, infinitive)
- नेतो॑स् (nétos, infinitive)
- ने॒षणि॑ (neṣáṇi, infinitive)
- नि॒त्वा (nitvā́, gerund)
- न॒यि॒त्वा (nayitvā́, gerund)
- नीय॑ (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”)
- ने॒त्र (netrá)
- नेत्री (netrī, “leaderess”)
- नीथा (nī́thā, “a music air, an hymn, a song”)
Prefixed root forms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root नी (0 c, 12 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root नी (7 c, 0 e)
References
- ^ * Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “NAYᴵ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 17
- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “nayi”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 339
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899), “नी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 565, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 90
- 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