неме
Southern Altai
Etymology
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 (nimä), 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
неме • (neme)
- thing
Pronoun
неме • (neme)
- what
References
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “неме”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ, M.: OGIZ, →ISBN