नी
Hindi
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /niː/, [n̪iː]
Particle
नी • (nī)
- (dialectal, especially Indore) Alternative form of नहीं (nahī̃)
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- नि (ni)
Etymology
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”). More distant cognates include Russian нести (nesti), Latin nex, Latin nancīscor and Ancient Greek ἤνεγκον (ḗnenkon).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /niː/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /n̪iː/
Root
नी • (nī)
- to guide, govern, direct
See also
- आनयति (ānayati)
- उन्नयति (unnayati)
- नयति (nayati, “to guide”)
- नाय (nāya, “guidance, direction”), with many other related compounds
- नीत (nīta, “guided, led”)
- नीति (nīti, “bringer of guidance”)
- नीथ (nītha, “leader”)
- नीथा (nīthā, “a music air, an hymn, a song”)
- नेतव्य (netavya, “that which ought to be guided, examined or applied”)
- नेतृ (netṛ, “leader”)
- नेत्री (netrī, “leaderess”)
- प्रणयति (praṇayati)
- प्रणी (praṇī, “guidance, devotion”)
- √आनी (ānī, “to bring”)
- √उदानी (udānī, “to lift”)
- √प्रणी (praṇī, “to finish, promote, love...”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “नी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 565,567,568,660.
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*něti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 105