deyil

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic дејил
Abjad classical sp دگل
new sp دئییل, دگیل

Etymology

From Classical Azerbaijani دگل (dəgül), from Proto-Turkic *degül (is not).[1] Cognate with Turkish değil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdejil/
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): /ˈdædʒil/, /dæːl/[2]
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  • Hyphenation: de‧yil
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Adverb

deyil

  1. not (negates the verb *imək (to be))
    Bura Amerika deyil.This is not America.
    Onlar varlı deyillər.They are not rich.
    Biz buna razı deyildik.We were not okay with this, we did not agree to this.
    Sən xoşbəxt ola bilərsən, amma mən deyiləm.You may be happy, but I am not.
    Siz evli deyilsiniz bəyəm?Aren't you married?

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*degül”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.
  2. Dehghani, Yavar (2000) A grammar of Iranian Azeri: including comparisons with Persian, Munich: Lincom Europa, page 124:The negative morpheme is no longer /mA/ in the copular construction. Instead it is /dägil/ which is preceded by the noun, adjective, or adverb, and followed by the copular suffix, as in: /kiši dägil-yäm/ 'I am not a man.'
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