ᠨ᠋ᠢᠬᠡᠨ
Middle Mongol
Alernative scripts
- (Arabic script) نیکان (nykʾn /niken/)
- (Han script) 你刊 (nǐkān /niken/)
- (Phags-pa script) ꡋꡞ
ꡁꡦꡋ (ni-kʼen /niken/), ꡋꡞ
ꡂꡦꡋ (ni-gen /nigen/)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *niken.[1]
Numeral
ᠨ᠋ᠢᠬᠡᠨ (niken)
Descendants
- Classical Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠭᠡ (nige)
- Written Oirat:
- Kalmyk: негн (negn)
References
Further reading
- D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 483
- D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2010), Mongolian monuments in ʾPhags-pa script (Language and Linguistics monograph series; 42), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 161
- Poppe, Nicholas (1938), Mongolʹskij Slovarʹ Mukaddimat al-Adab[2] (in Russian), page 251
- Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 117
- Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 198