Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From *ne-me, From Proto-Turkic *nē-.

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (nemä, something); Kyrgyz неме (neme, something), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, what?), Bashkir нимә (nimə), Crimean Tatar neme, Kumyk неме (neme), Turkmen näme (what?), Uzbek nima, Uyghur نېمە (nëme), نىمە (nime, what?), Khakas ниме (nime, what?), Shor небе (thing), Western Yugur nemə, etc.

Noun

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неме (neme)

  1. thing

Pronoun

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неме (neme)

  1. what

References

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N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “неме”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN