нь
Mongolian
editMongolian | Cyrillic |
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ᠨᠢ (ni) | нь (nʹ) |
Etymology
editFrom Middle Mongol ᠢᠨ᠋ᠤ (inu, 3sg-poss) and ᠠᠨ᠋ᠤ (anu, 3pl-poss).
-н (-n) was an oblique suffix originally after a personal pronoun’s stem, while -ь (-ʹ) is the unique suffix for possessive particles. Original determiners were merged into a single particle, so morphemes i and a which denote grammatical numbers, were omitted.
Compare also Buryat -нь (-nʹ), -ынь (-ynʹ), -иинь (-iinʹ) and Kalmyk -нь (-nʹ).
Pronunciation
editParticle
editнь • (nʹ)
- Third-person possessive particle
- Topic marker
- one (a particular thing or person, qualified with an adjective)
- (after participles)what (marking a subject clause)
See also
editYakut
editPronunciation
editLetter
editнь • (ny) (lower case, upper case Нь)
- The nineteenth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called ньэ (nye), and written in the Cyrillic script.