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हि

Awadhi

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit हि (hí).

Postposition

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हि (hi)

  1. marks the dative case: to, for
    जिन्हाहि ― jinhāhi ― to whom

Khaling

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t.

Noun

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हि (hi)

  1. blood

References

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  • “हि”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

Newar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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हि • (hi) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐴𑐶)

  1. blood

Pali

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Conjunction

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हि

  1. Devanagari script form of hi (“because”)

Adverb

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हि

  1. Devanagari script form of hi (“certainly”)

Sanskrit

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (“to throw, drive, wound”).

Root

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हि • (hi)

  1. to send forth, impel, urge on, hasten on
  2. to stimulate or incite to
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Derived terms
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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “हि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1297,1303.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 205
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “हि”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “हि”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰí, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰí, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi.

Pronunciation

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Particle

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हि • (hí)

  1. for, because, on account of (never standing first in a sentence, but generally after the first word and used enclitically, sometimes after pronouns)
    सर्वो हि पृतना जिगीषति (sárvo hí pṛ́tanā jígīṣati) — for everybody wishes to win battles
    भवान् हि प्रमाणम् (bhavān hi pramāṇam) — for your honour is the authority
    तथा हि (tathā hi) — for example; accordingly
    न हि (ná hí), नहि (nahí) — for not; not at all
  2. just, pray, do (with an imperative or potential emphatically; sometimes with indicative)
    पश्यामो हि (paśyāmo hi) — we will just see
  3. indeed, assuredly, surely, of course, certainly
    हि वै (hí vaí) — most assuredly
    हि – तु (hi – tu), हि – पुनर् (hi – punar) — indeed – but
  4. often a mere expletive, especially to avoid a hiatus, sometimes repeated in the same sentence; hi is also said to be an interjection of "envy", "contempt", "hurry" etc.
Descendants
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  • → Awadhi: हि (hi)
  • ⇒ Hindustani:

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “हि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1297/3.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 814-5
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