नी

Hindi

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /niː/

Particle

नी • (nī)

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

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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 Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /n̪iː/

Root

नी • (nī)

1. 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”)
• 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, page 565,567,568,660.
• 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