нь

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See also: нъ, њ, and -нь

Mongolian

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MongolianCyrillic
ᠨᠢ
(ni)
нь
()

Etymology

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From Middle Mongol ᠢᠨ᠋ᠤ (inu, 3sg-poss) and ᠠᠨ᠋ᠤ (anu, 3pl-poss).

(-n) was an oblique suffix originally after a personal pronoun’s stem, while () is the unique suffix for possessive particles. Original determiners were merged into a single particle, so morphemes i and a which denote grammatical numbers, were omitted.

Compare also Buryat -нь (-nʹ), -ынь (-ynʹ), -иинь (-iinʹ) and Kalmyk -нь (-nʹ).

Pronunciation

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  • (after a vowel) IPA(key): /n/
  • (after a consonant) IPA(key): /ən/

Particle

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нь ()

  1. Third-person possessive particle
  2. Topic marker
    Нохой нь маш номхон байна.
    Noxoj maš nomxon bajna.
    The dog [in question] is very tame.
  3. one (a particular thing or person, qualified with an adjective)
  4. (after participles)what (marking a subject clause)

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Yakut

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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нь (ny) (lower case, upper case Нь)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called ньэ (nye), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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