नु
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Particle edit
नु (nu)
- Devanagari script form of nu (“then, now”)
Sanskrit edit
Alternative forms edit
- नू (nū́)
Alternative scripts edit
- নু (Assamese script)
- ᬦᬸ (Balinese script)
- নু (Bengali script)
- 𑰡𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀦𑀼 (Brahmi script)
- နု (Burmese script)
- નુ (Gujarati script)
- ਨੁ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌨𑍁 (Grantha script)
- ꦤꦸ (Javanese script)
- 𑂢𑂳 (Kaithi script)
- ನು (Kannada script)
- នុ (Khmer script)
- ນຸ (Lao script)
- നു (Malayalam script)
- ᠨᡠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘡𑘳 (Modi script)
- ᠨᠤ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧁𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐣𑐸 (Newa script)
- ନୁ (Odia script)
- ꢥꢸ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆤𑆶 (Sharada script)
- 𑖡𑖲 (Siddham script)
- නු (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩯𑩒 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚝𑚰 (Takri script)
- நு (Tamil script)
- ను (Telugu script)
- นุ (Thai script)
- ནུ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒢𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨝𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Latin num (“now”), Old English nū (whence English now), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
नु • (nú)
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Indo-European *newH- (“to cry”), whence Old Irish núall (“a loud noise”), Tocharian B nu- (“to roar”),[2] and perhaps Latin nūntius (“messenger”).[3]
Alternative forms edit
- नव् (nav)
Pronunciation edit
Root edit
नु • (nu)
Derived terms edit
- अनविष्ट (anaviṣṭa)
- अनावित् (anāvit)
- अनुवीत् (anuvīt)
- अनूनवत् (anūnavat)
- अनूनोत् (anūnot)
- अनूषि (anūṣi)
- अनोनवुर् (anonavur)
- अनौषित् (anauṣit)
- नवति (navati)
- नवते (navate)
- नवत् (navat)
- नवमान (navamāna)
- नविता (navitā)
- नविष्यति (naviṣyati)
- नवीनोत् (navīnot)
- नावयति (nāvayati)
- नुत (nutá, “praised, commended”)
- नुति (nuti, “praise, laudation; worship”)
- नुनाव (nunāva)
- नुनावयिषति (nunāvayiṣati)
- नुनूषति (nunūṣati)
- नुवत् (nuvat)
- नूयते (nūyate)
- नोनवीति (nonavīti)
- नोनाव (nonāva)
- नोनुमस् (nonumas)
- नोनुवुर् (nonuvur)
- नोनूयते (nonūyate)
- नोनोति (nonoti)
Noun edit
नु • (nu) stem, m
Declension edit
Masculine u-stem declension of नु (nu) | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | नुः nuḥ |
नू nū |
नवः navaḥ |
Vocative | नो no |
नू nū |
नवः navaḥ |
Accusative | नुम् num |
नू nū |
नून् nūn |
Instrumental | नुना / न्वा¹ nunā / nvā¹ |
नुभ्याम् nubhyām |
नुभिः nubhiḥ |
Dative | नवे / न्वे¹ nave / nve¹ |
नुभ्याम् nubhyām |
नुभ्यः nubhyaḥ |
Ablative | नोः / न्वः¹ noḥ / nvaḥ¹ |
नुभ्याम् nubhyām |
नुभ्यः nubhyaḥ |
Genitive | नोः / न्वः¹ noḥ / nvaḥ¹ |
न्वोः nvoḥ |
नूनाम् nūnām |
Locative | नौ nau |
न्वोः nvoḥ |
नुषु nuṣu |
Notes |
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Etymology 3 edit
Related to Proto-Iranian *nau (“to move”) (whence Persian نویدن (navidan, “to tremble, quiver”)), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod”), with semantic shift "to nod the head" > "to move in a shaking manner". However, Mayrhofer is skeptical of most attestations of the root in Indic, noting that the Sanskrit passages attributed to the root are just as well interpreted with the "to sound out, praise" meaning of Etymology 2. That said, certain isolated formations like अतिनावयेत् (atināvayet) do seem to point to the root's existence as separate from that of Etymology 2.[2]
Alternative forms edit
- नव् (nav)
Root edit
नु • (nu)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “नु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 567/1-2.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 91
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 767, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 767
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 353
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 52-3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 23-4; 52
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419