नी
Hindi edit
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
नी • (nī)
Sanskrit edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative scripts edit
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 edit
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *neyH-. 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”).
Pronunciation edit
Root edit
नी • (nī)
Descendants edit
See also edit
Primary Verbal Forms
Secondary Forms
Non-Finite Forms
Derived Nominal Forms
- नाय (nāya, “guidance, direction”), with many other related compounds
- प्रणी (praṇī, “guidance, devotion”)
- नीति (nīti, “bringer of guidance”)
- नीथ (nītha, “leader”)
- नेतृ (netṛ, “leader”)
- नेत्री (netrī, “leaderess”)
- नेतव्य (netavya, “that which ought to be guided, examined or applied”)
- नीथा (nīthā, “a music air, an hymn, a song”)
- आनयति (ānayati)
- उन्नयति (unnayati)
- प्रणयति (praṇayati)
Prefixed Root Forms
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “नी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 565/1.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 90
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 17-9; 49
- Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 339-40
- 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