नी

Hindi

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /niː/

Particle

नी • ()

  1. (dialectal, especially Indore) Alternative form of नहीं (nahī̃)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Etymology

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

Root

नी • ()

  1. to guide, govern, direct

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root नी‎ (0 c, 10 e)
Primary Verbal Forms
  • नयति (náyati, Present)
  • नेष्यति (neṣyáti, Future)
  • नयिष्यति (nayiṣyáti, Future)
  • नेता (netā, Periphrastic Future)
  • नयिता (nayitā, Periphrastic Future)
  • अनैषीत् (ánaiṣīt, Aorist)
  • अनयीत् (ánayīt, Aorist)
  • निनाय (ninā́ya, Perfect)
Secondary Forms
  • नीयते (nīyáte, Passive)
  • अनायि (ánāyi, Passive Aorist)
  • नाययति (nāyáyati, Causative)
  • अनीनयत् (anīnayat, Causative Aorist)
  • निनीषति (nínīṣati, Desiderative)
  • नेनीयते (nenīyáte, Intensive)
Non-Finite Forms
  • नेतुम् (nétum, Infinitive)
  • नयितुम् (náyitum, Infinitive)
  • नेतोस् (nétos, Infinitive)
  • नेषणि (neṣáṇi, Infinitive)
  • नित्वा (nitvā́, Gerund)
  • नयित्वा (nayitvā́, Gerund)
  • नीय (nī́ya, Gerund)
  • नेय (neya, Gerundive)
  • नेतव्य (netavya, Gerundive)
  • नयितव्य (nayitavya, Gerundive)
  • नीत (nītá, Past Participle)
  • निनीषु (ninīṣu, Desiderative Participle)
Derived Nominal Forms
  • नय (naya)
  • नयन (nayana)
  • नयिन् (nayin)
  • नाय (nāyá, guidance, direction), with many other related compounds
  • नायक (nāyaka)
  • निनीषा (ninīṣā)
  • नी ()
  • प्रणी (praṇī, guidance, devotion)
  • नीति (nīti, bringer of guidance)
  • नीथ (nīthá, leader)
  • नेतृ (netṛ, leader)
  • नेत्र (netrá)
  • नेत्री (netrī, leaderess)
  • नीथा (nī́thā, a music air, an hymn, a song)
Prefixed Root Forms
  • अनुनी (anunī)
  • अपनी (apanī)
  • अभिनी (abhinī)
  • अवनी (avanī)
  • आनी (ānī, to bring)
  • उदानी (udānī, to lift)
  • उन्नी (unnī)
  • उपनी (upanī)
  • निनी (ninī)
  • निर्णी (nirṇī)
  • परिणी (pariṇī)
  • प्रणी (praṇī, to finish, promote, love)
  • प्रत्यानी (pratyānī)
  • विनी (vinī)
  • व्यपनी (vyapanī)
  • संनी (saṃnī)
  • समानी (samānī)

Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root नी‎ (5 c, 0 e)

References

  • 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] (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
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