nə
Azerbaijani edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”),[1] the only Turkic root beginning with /n/. "The earliest [Proto-Turkic] form must have contained a unique initial nasal (generally nasals were not allowed word-initially), having yielded specific reflexes in modern languages."[1]
Cognate with Bashkir ни (ni, “what”), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn, “what”), Karakhanid [script needed] (nē, “what”), Kazakh не (ne, “what”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what”), Kyrgyz не (ne, “what”), Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (ne, “what, which”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne, “what”), Tatar ни (ni, “what”), Turkish ne (“what”), Turkmen nǟmä (“what”), Tuvan чүү (çüü, “what”), Uyghur نېمە (nëme, “what”), Uzbek na (“what”), Yakut туох (tuoq, “what”).[1]
Pronoun edit
nə (definite accusative nəyi, plural nələr)
- what
- 2017, Vahid Çəmənli, Hər şey yaxşıya doğru:
- Babam durub oturdu, mən də qaça – qaça onların yanına gəldim ki, görüm, Əyyub dayı nə deyir, babam nə deyir.
- My grandfather sat back down, while I run towards them to see what uncle Əyyub and my grandfather have to say.
- whatever
- Nə olur olsun!
- Come whatever may!
Declension edit
The words nə and su (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.
| Declension of nə | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| nominative | nə |
nələr | ||||||
| definite accusative | nəyi |
nələri | ||||||
| dative | nəyə |
nələrə | ||||||
| locative | nədə |
nələrdə | ||||||
| ablative | nədən |
nələrdən | ||||||
| definite genitive | nəyin |
nələrin | ||||||
Derived terms edit
Determiner edit
nə
See also edit
| English | Azerbaijani |
|---|---|
| what | nə, nəmənə (South Azerbaijani) |
| who | kim |
| which | hansı |
| which (in a numbered series) | neçənci |
| who (by occupation) | nəçi |
| who (by origin) | haralı |
| where (which place) | hara, hayan, hanı |
| where (at which place) | harada, hayanda |
| whither (to which place) | hara, haraya, hayana |
| whence (from which place) | haradan, hayandan |
| when | nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, havaxt (colloquial) |
| why | niyə, nə üçün, neyçün |
| how | necə, nətər |
| how much | nə qədər |
| how many | neçə |
Etymology 2 edit
From Persian نه (na). Cognate to Old English ne (“not”).
Conjunction edit
nə
- neither; nor
- 2000, Firidun Ağasıoğlu, Azər xalqı:
- özləri isə nə məğlub, nə də başqasının hakimiyətinə tabe olmuşlar
- while they were neither defeated nor subjugated to foreign rule themselves
Usage notes edit
- Not used alone but rather as nə...nə..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”). Often used in form of nə + nə də.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*nē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.
Khalaj edit
| Perso-Arabic | نه | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).
Adverb edit
nə
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- nâşmaq (“to do what”)
Etymology 2 edit
Conjunction edit
nə ... nə ...
Usage notes edit
- Not used alone but rather as nə...nə..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”).
References edit
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC